Exhibition

Cécile B. Evans | Exhibition Coming Soon

A narrator introduces a group of radical teenage girls, the “realitarians”, who participate in a reality show and have taken the power on the imposed scenario and are trying to invent a new way of existing. The characters are confronted with concepts such as debt, history, technology, and time, which shape what is accepted as “real”. To counter this, the teenage girls practise “shifting”: a way of training their minds to enter new realities. This practice, which developed during the lockdowns and is very popular on TikTok, consists of imagining a desired reality. Moving from one world to another, acknowledging the malleability of existence and the future, the film questions how reality is shaped and changed as values are transformed, and as we revisit the past and its legacy. The film was made in collaboration with the Lycée Suger in Saint-Denis (France), the students, and their teacher, Sandra Murail, as part of Cécile B. Evans’s residency at Lafayette Anticipations.

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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