YIA Art Fair returns to Paris for its seventh edition

YIA Art Fair 2016

YIA (International Young Artists) Art Fair will return to Paris for its seventh edition bringing together 65 international art galleries at Carreau du Temple, Paris. The 2016 edition of YIA Art Fair also proposes a series of exhibitions and events Hors les murs at various major museums in the Marais district of Paris.

Les Archives Nationales: Pavillon de l'Exil

The Museum of National Archives (Les Archives Nationales) will be presenting a collective exhibition “Pavillon de l’Exil. 1ère escale” (Pavillon of Exile. First stop) while revisiting the question of human displacement, whether economic, political or resulting from war and natural catastrophes.

Missing Stories – La Cinquième île [The Fifth Island]

With this personal exhibition at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, photographer and artist Laura Henno presents the outcome of her encounters with migrants from the Réunion to Comoros to the ‘jungle’ of Calais. Through a series of photographs based on the Réunion Islands and her two films (Missing Stories), the photographer merges the individual narratives with the collective history in a genre that lies between documentary realism and art fiction.

LOUPS

Museum Cognac-Jay partners with YIA Art Fair, 2016 for the Hors Les Murs section and presents a collective exhibition “Loups” (“Wolves“) exploring the tragicomic game of power and its contemporary manifestations from Wall Street to Panama. Exhibiting artists explore and attempt to expose, through metaphors, the economic and political errors of our time.

Parallel Call

Drawing parallels between historical and contemporary art, artists Charlotte Charbonnel, Adrian Couvrat, Lyes Hammadouche, Selma Lepart, Mathieu Briand and Nicolas Merlet-Tubéry, offer a unique look at the permanent collection of the Musée d’arts et métiers.

L'Atrabile

The Atrabile is the new creation of artist Rémy Yadan, conceived specifically for the Picasso National Museum at Paris. Between choreographic and theatrical, the performance will interpret the melancholiness of existence based on the works of Pablo Picasso. Reservations are recommended.

Rafales – Pavillon de l'Exil. 1ère Escale

Rafales (Gusts) is a choreographic performance that evokes the power of wind as the two moving bodies reinvent themselves in the rhythmic flow and the violent vitality of gusts of wind.

Dandelion

If the installation ‘Dandelion’ reminds one of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel or Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles installation, artist Luc Lapraye’s bicycle wheels laid out in a hemisphere are not just meant to recycle the history of art but they also hint at contemporary ecological issues.

Cyril Zarcone's Helical Flight (La volée hélicoïdale)

In a direct dialogue with the history of Credit Municipal de Paris’ magnificent building and the remains of a medieval tower that are still visible there, artist Cyril Zircon imagines a staircase, a helical flight (La volée hélicoïdale), potentially locked inside the tower.

Regards croisés sur les migrants

In the collective consciousness, the phenomenon of migration generates a fictional media and political discourse that obstructs an objective and dispassionate examination of the issue. But, as the work of artist Laura Henno shows, certain fictions (such as, reinvention of personal identities as a means to survival) are integral to migrations. Does the dialogue between philosophy and fiction also take into account the human narrative? The migratory fictions, are they not a part of the reality of migrants? How does it finally translate in visual arts?