L'Avancée Lena Long
L’Avancée is a hanging wall dedicated to emerging artists and a way of extending the exhibition space into the living space. During the year 21-22, the Pernod Ricard Foundation is partnering with the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris and the « exhibition professions » program. Every month, from October to July, a student is invited to take over the gallery and to accompany his or her display with an exchange with the public.
Eighth episode of our collaboration with the Beaux-Arts de Paris, L’Avancée presents for four weeks the work of Lena Long, a student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in the Dominique Figarella studio.
On the occasion of the opening, the artist Tristan Brundler will give a musical performance.
“Through what channels of representation do industries come to shape our intimacies; from our bodies to our fantasies? My work is anchored in the study of forms of power and their symbols. Indeed, cultural industries offer products that intrude into our private lives. Hollywood films, attractions and merchandising form economies, mentalities and lifestyles that establish a global civilization of desires, dictate attitudes, guide choices and entrench civilizational prejudices. My visual research therefore focuses on the performativity of images and their impact on bodies and mentalities. » (Lena Long)
Tristan Brundler lives and works in Brussels.
A multidisciplinary artist, Brundler studied at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He questions contemporary poetry through multiple materials and forms: sound, video, sculpture and installation.
Tristan Brundler makes music the same way he sculpts: by shaping voices, empty landscapes, organic forms, intertwining plastic and vegetation to create places with dimensions that can be trodden on and crossed. He goes through stages of recovery, deconstruction, reassembly and fusion of sound materials. Tristan Brundler’s music meets his sculptural desire: the creation of places, atmospheres and poetry. Oscillating between electronic violence and mental sweetness.
Image: © Sirine Mokdes