Following the logic of experimentation - but also of desire - of the ‘Poésie Plateforme’ cycle, artist Anne Bourse and poet L. Etchart will engage in a dialogue. The point of departure for this encounter is Anne Bourse's fascination with L. Etchart's astonishing story Tupamadre - a poet who dazzlingly invents his own language between French and Spanish. Tupamadre will be the point of exchange between these two extraordinary creators, who transcend lines, objects, uses and media. For they are among those who manage to imagine something new - intense, sumptuous and discreet at the same time - with what falls into their laps - politics, in particular - and what is at hand - the ordinary.
Anne Bourse creates drawings, textiles, objects, installations and environments that interweave gentleness and obsession, between decoration and utopia. Collecting, reworking, scribbling, collaging and writing are some of the tools she uses to create visual quasi-narratives that are both enigmatic and simple. Her work is regularly shown in France: at the Parc Saint Léger, the MOCO La Panacée in Montpellier, the Crédac in Ivry, the Galerie Edouard Manet in Gennevilliers, the Ménagerie de Verre, the Galerie Crèvecoeur in Paris, which represents her, and internationally: Lisbon, Toronto, Bremerhaven... Her first solo museum exhibition will open at the MAMC+ in Saint-Etienne in autumn 2024. Anne Bourse was nominated for the 24th Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize in 2023. Her work was the subject of a TextWork by Nick Currie.
Tupamadre was published by Editions Les Terrasses in 2023. The story mixes narrative texts, poetry and archives in French hybridised with Spanish. His poetry has no rules, no accents and no apostrophes. L. Etchart learned the French language in Montevideo from her family, who were political refugees in France in the 1970s. She writes with violence and treachery to an imperialist French language. A child of Uruguay's Tupamarx guerrillxs, L. Etchart grew up surrounded by memories of struggle, violence, fascism and hope. Her book develops the queer narrative of a childhood. It is mainly centred on the figure of her mother, through the prism of her death from cancer: from local miss to robbery, from worker to wife, this journey reveals a world in the remains of possible spaces. When it came out, this book was particularly noted for its power and inventiveness.
