Opening 25.09.24, 6 – 9 pm
Curator : Céline Poulin
An exhibition presented as part of The Lithuanian Season in France 2024
A major Lithuanian artist on the international scene, Eglė Budvytytė presents her first exhibition in France at the Frac Île-de-France, as part of the France-Lituanie season. She explores the overlap between the visual and performing arts.
Her practice, which spans song, poetry, video and performance, delves into the persuasive power of collectivity, vulnerability and the fluid relationships between bodies, the public and environments.
Encounters and collaboration are central to her work, involving other artists and users of public space and exhibitions.
The film is a poetic exploration of intimacy between the land and the body, loosely based on the research around matrilineal societies in the neolithic period by the Lithuanian archelogist Marija Gimbutas.
The exhibition is centered around a new video work, shot in different landscapes of Lithuania. The film is a speculative and performative attempt to translate the archeological research and materials, such as clay figurines and the remains of temple structures and burial sites into poetry, moving images, and choreographies of collectivity and intimacy between the body and the land.
Eglė Budvytytė was born in 1981 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She is based in Vilnius and Amsterdam.
Her work has been exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA 2) and the Renaissance Society in Chicago, among others. She was artist in residence at the Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012) and at Wiels, Centre d’art contemporain, (Brussels, 2013).
Rendez-vous
Curator’s tour of the exhibition & artist’s encounter for the Project Room
Wednesday 05.02.25, 7pm
Two-voice tour of the exhibition ‘De sang chaud et de terre’, with Céline Poulin, exhibition curator, in dialogue with Austė Zdančiūtė, cultural attaché at the Lithuanian embassy
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Meeting with Wei Libo and Maëlle Dault for the Project Room
Late opening
Every first Wednesday of the month, open until 9pm
Guided tours
Every Sunday, 4pm
Rendez-vous for families
Wednesday workshops
Movement manufacturers
from 6 to 12 years old
Wednesdays 13.11/20.11/27.11/04.12/11.12/18.12 from 2.30pm to 4.30pm
By observing the work of artist Eglé Budvytyté, children will create and give life to small clay and textile puppets, to understand, reproduce and perform movement.
Cycle of 6 sessions
Saturday workshops
Buried worlds
Saturdays 07.12, 4.01 and 1.02, 14h30-16h
The ground is full of treasures and will be our source of inspiration! Moulding, clay, sound creation or film, children experiment with a multitude of techniques to bring invented civilisations to life.
Artist workshop with Silina Syan
Over two days during the school holidays, from 6 to 10 years old
17 and 18.02 10-12pm, 2-4.30pm
Throughout the workshop, the children take silver photographs using the props, paper costumes and sets they have created. New images are created by scratching and colouring the film. Together, they explore the breadth of their imaginations.
