Poésie Plateforme with Jean-Charles de Quillacq and Elen Riot
Hosted by poet and teacher Jérôme Mauche for the past ten years, the ‘Poésie Plateforme’ (Poetry Platform) meetings provide an opportunity for unexpected dialogue. These invitations bring together an artist and an exchange partner from a wide range of practices - poets, novelists, and some of the most stimulating researchers - in close proximity to their approach and work, creating a back-and-forth between uses, temporalities and invention, through the prism of an art that questions the possible and builds worlds.
“Poésie Plateforme” invites Jean-Charles de Quillacq, an artist with sculptural, conceptual and fetishist practices, and Elen Riot, a specialist in entrepreneurial strategy and innovation, to engage in an original, forward-looking dialogue. Traditionally far apart in their classical perspectives, the artistic and entrepreneurial worlds nevertheless interpenetrate in a multitude of ways.
This encounter is in keeping with Jean-Charles de Quillacq's approach, as he develops a series of sculptures focusing on issues such as the body and its representation, the choice of materials and their interactions, and social attitudes and the organization of work. For Quillacq, the exhibition is often also a performance space, playing with institutional codes, delegation and the authority of his works. In recent years, he has shown his work at Bétonsalon, Paris, Ma système reproductive; at Art 3, Valence, Ma sis t'aime reproductive; at Ampersand, Lisbon, Pros; and recently at Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, Les poulains deviennent des chevaux. With Elsa Vettier, he has published Saint-Pierre-des-corps, Sombres torrents, 2020.
An alumnus of ENS Lyon and HEC, where she defended a thesis in strategy, Elen Riot is a University Professor at the Université Paris de 8-Vincennes and a member of the Laboratoire d'Economie Dyonisien. In her research, she favors field surveys and the gathering of testimonials. She supports alternative entrepreneurial projects. She is interested in writing about reality and new media art through her association “Lemmes, art et sciences”.