Poésie Médium Art "Investigate"
The cycle « Poetry Art Medium » of the Pernod Ricard Foundation proposes at Montévidéo-Marseille a meeting with the artist and novelist Gregory Buchert and the dancer, choreographer and author, Lenio Kaklea.
Following diverse and inventive paths, Gregory Buchert and Lenio Kaklea propose investigations, processes of collection, exploration, as well as restitution of living materials. They explore spaces and places combining memory arts and social sciences, movement, image and narration. Their books participate with acuity in the renewal of contemporary writing forms, in interaction with their respective artistic practices.
After studying at the Haute École d’Art du Rhin, at Le Fresnoy, and then at the post-graduate program of the ENSBA in Lyon, Gregory Buchert developed an artistic vocabulary often nourished by literary references. His film 858 pages south, a performative adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, won the Analix Forever Prize. His video and performance work has been presented at the Kunsthaus Baselland, the Jérôme Poggi Gallery in Paris, the Magasin de Grenoble, the CRAC Alsace, the FRAC Bretagne, and the Hors-Pistes festival at the Centre Pompidou. Mains d’Œuvres in Saint-Ouen devoted a solo exhibition to him. In addition, his approach integrates the narrative. In 2015, he produced a multimedia conference, Le Musée domestiqué, an anthropological investigation imbued with fiction, weaving together the singular trajectories of six works of art never before acquired. During a residency at the Maison des Arts de Malakoff, he began a specific writing project. In 2020, Editions Verticales published his novel, Malakoff, a topographical fiction, inscribed in the imaginary and real fabric of this city, which strikes by its great mastery.
A graduate of the National Conservatory of Contemporary Dance in Athens, the CNDC in Angers and the SPEAP program at Sciences Po in Paris, Lenio Kaklea is developing a particularly noteworthy artistic practice, at the intersection of dance and critical theory. His creations and pieces have been presented by numerous institutions throughout Europe, including the Centre Pompidou, ImPulsTanz Festival, Fondation Onassis, PACT Zollverein, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, documenta 14/Public programs, NEXT Festival, Passerelle Centre d’art, CND. For several years, she travelled the streets of various peripheral territories in Germany, France, Greece and Switzerland, gathering nearly 600 singular accounts that explore the diversity of habits, rituals and professions specific to these spaces. She draws from them choreographic projects, including dance, performance, text and film, as well as two books at Presses du réel Encyclopédie pratique-Portraits d’Aubervilliers, 2018, and Encyclopédie pratique-Détours, 2019. In 2019, she received the dance prize of the Fondation Hermès Italia and created Ballad, a solo for the Triennale of Milan.
