PRESENTATION
On Sptember 21st, from 7PM to 9PM, the gallery space will host a round-table evening.
The event is free and open to all.
This interdisciplinary programme will explore the motif of games as social ritual through propositions by invited guests Fernanda Ballesteros, Chantal Barthélémy-Ruiz and Archibald Apori.
GALLERY
Since 2015, self-taught painter Archibald Apori, who has always nourished a practice in drawing, has conducted several workshops as an intervening artist in secondary schools, prisons and associative organizations.
His work revolves around the notions of travel, movement and immobility. Within his work , drawing continues to hold an important place, offering Apori the privileged means, both in terms of speed and gesture, to explore his concepts.
Through his process, Archibald Apori attempts to re-arrange the images he encounters in everyday life by painting spaces of interaction. Opting for these references, he works by hybridization, re--shaping them in response to the chosen subject.
In 2016, he participated in the Contemporary Drawing Festival of the Toulon Museum. In 2015, he was awarded the mixed media drawing prize by the city of Guyancourt.
Archibald Apori was born in France in 1987. He lives and works in the Paris suburbs.
BIOGRAPHY
OPENING
IN PRESENCE
OF THE ARTIST
Friday
September 2nd
7PM-9PM
September 3rd - October 1st 2022
ARCHIBALD APORI
COMMON GROUND
L'affrontement (The brawl), oil on paper mounted on canvas
Programme
19h Reading
Fernanda Ballesteros (author, artist) writes short fictions inspired by plastic artwork encountered on her path. She will offer us a reading of a short tale comissioned by the gallery inspired by "Common Ground".
19h20 Round Table
Chantal Barthélémy Ruiz is a specialist in Game Sciences. In an open conversation with the audience she and Archibald Apori will discuss the importance of the practice of games as a tool for buidling up a society.
20h Collective imaginary board game
Archibald Apori and Margalit Berriet will reveal an imaginary board game inviting all to join in a participatory experiment in free hand drawin expression.
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SATELLITE
EVENTS
OPEN TO VISITORS
Tuesday - Saturday
11am-7pm
Associated partners
From September 3rd to October 1st 2022, Mémoire de l’Avenir presents the latest works by artist, painter and frequent collaborator Archibald Apori (b. 1987). Together with a selection of charcoal drawings and watercolor sketches, the series of oil paintings created between 2020 and 2022, presents the artist’s take on the human praxis of play as a timeless and yet ever-renewed social and philosophical tool.
Within vaporous atmospheres, figures at play hurdle over inscrutable games. Their gaze directs our own into a guarded reality to which access seems conditioned upon a shared knowledge of stakes and odds, a common understanding of a set of rules or even an allegiance to an unrevealed cause.
Only the players seem to be in the know.
Through the praxis of play, they are introduced into a newfound space, one of production of meaning through which infinite possibilities may potentially unfold – the game of chess, being the paragon in this matter, is a recurring motif and a focal element within Apori’s exploration of the theme.
As space and time seem to bend, it seems only attention can anchor these figures as they enter secret dialogues on the threshold of manmade worlds. Archibald Apori’s interest in the human capacity for abstraction and its tangible effects on our material world have led him to create works in relation to astronomy and mathematics, two themes equally present in the show.
Apori’s compositions reveal the praxis of play in its most poetic dimension, as a laboratory for creative logic, collective community and as perhaps the last rampart against a world of lawlessness.
Ashley Molco Castello
co-curator
Curators
Margalit Berriet – Présidente-fondatrice de Mémoire de l’Avenir, Artiste chercheuse
Ashley Molco Castello – Responsable des expositions à Mémoire de l’Avenir
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