Residency Cécile B. Evans

Workshop in residency

from 01 Nov 2022 to 21 Oct 2023
Cécile B. Evans, Reality or Not © Chloé Magdelaine

The special first presentation of Cécile B Evans' new work!

'Reality of Not' is a film about the production of reality and who it belongs to, which takes as its starting point a group of exceptional young people who've been asked to participate in a reality show about how to start a new way of living together. As a means of refusing the show's storyline, they begin a practice of reality shifting and the film begins to move across worlds.

'Reality or Not' asks how reality could be shaped differently if values like power, history, or time were really shifted?

The film was made during Cécile B Evans' residency at the Fondation, in particular with the help of the Lycée Suger in St-Denis (93) and the students' teacher Sandra Murail.
Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in Saint-Denis.

Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. They are currently working on a new performance commission for the MOVE festival at Centre Pompidou Paris (FR).

Recent selected solo exhibitions include 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine (FR), Museum Abteiberg (DE), Tramway (UK), Chateau Shatto (US), Museo Madre (IT), mumok Vienna (AT), Castello di Rivoli (IT), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT), Tate Liverpool (UK), Kunsthalle Aarhus (DK), M Museum Leuven (BE), De Hallen Haarlem (NL), and Serpentine Galleries (UK).

Evans’ work has been included amongst others at Lafayette Anticipations (FR), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Mito Art Tower (JP), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), the 7th International Moscow Biennale (RU), the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial (RU), Galerie Kamel Mennour (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), the 9th Berlin Biennale (DE), the 20th Sydney Biennale (AUS), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES), and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (FR).

Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US), The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US), Whitney Museum of American Art (US), De Haallen (NL), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), and FRAC Auvergne (FR).

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