Ecole Féministe de peinture, cccod | center de création contemporaine olivier debré, Tours. Invited by artist Ad Minoliti for his solo exhibition, Maria Ibanez Lago, artist, and Elodie Stroecken, curator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXs3AF48Pl4
Julie Navarro traverses her work, resonating with that of Ad Minoliti**. It's a question of feminism, seen through the prism of the blurred boundaries between notions of the human, the living, fiction and reality. Her work plays on inversions, reflections and the imaginary to thwart prejudice and challenge reality. In the practical workshop that follows, Julie Navarro invites participants to make their bodies differently, in contact with others. The aim is to produce transformations that displace traditional human functions, creating metamorphoses and bizarre characters.
*The verb soudre is similar to those patriarchs of ancient times who disappeared but left a vast progeny. ... This verb comes from the Latin solvere, which first means "to untie", then "to pay, to discharge a debt", "to disintegrate, to dissolve" and, finally, "to resolve, to find the solution".
** Ad Minoliti's "Play Theater" features sessions of the Feminist School of Painting, a concept that the artist has been developing since 2018. This ephemeral school offers a series of workshops for all ages, each focusing on a specific genre of painting. Portraiture, landscape, history, still life - the 'small genre' as she calls it - are all examined from a queer perspective by a group of artists, writers and academics.
Issues such as gender equality, minorities and their access to culture, and the impact of colonisation on customs and the landscape are all addressed.
Ad Minoliti wants this school to become a real part of the city, a place of freedom and expression for everyone.