EXPOSITION - PRESQUE PARTOUT

The changing dialogues between a work of art and its environment are at the heart of this exhibition. 20 years after opening its doors, the Frac Lorraine is questioning the contexts in which audiences access art. Surrounded by the work of Japanese artist Soshiro Matsubara (lives and works in Vienna), works from the collection stand alongside narratives that speak of alternative models of access to art. These components form a fantasized landscape, against a labyrinthine backdrop that fragments the gaze. It dissolves the privileged point of view, reminding us that there are many ways of seeing the same work, but also many ways of looking at culture. In these geographically variable spaces, the walls are doubled up to become an enveloping, uncertain presence. But if they themselves become changeable, what is there to hold on to? The works that fill the rooms. They speak both of the bodies that inhabit the exhibition, and of the exhibition as a strange body. They make up the family that is an art collection, with its cousins who more or less match up, its brothers and sisters with their airs of resemblance. We've looked beyond our own walls to bring back stories from elsewhere, about atypical strategies for providing access to culture? well, which one? the one we inherit, or the one provided by institutions? Do we need to pit them against each other? The exhibition questions what happens when the context becomes the subject itself, seeking to renew the form of the links between culture and environment, to intimately connect art and life.