"Peeping Space" at Galerie Eric Mouchet

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AGENCE COMMUNIC’ARTLindsey Marsh

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From 4 June to 23 july 2016opening Saturday 4 jUNe - 6pm to 9pm

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Summary

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Bérénice LefevbrE, architectural testimony............................................................................4

Gwendoline perrigueux, An absurd and burlesque universe.............................................5

etaïnn zwer, « wordcatcher »...........................................................................................................6

ChezKit, An artist-run space in pantin...........................................................................................7

VisuAls available for the press.................................................................................................8-11

practical information.........................................................................................................................12


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Galerie Eric Mouchet presents the exhibition Peeping Space with the young artists Bérénice Lefebvre, Gwendoline Perrigueux, and author Etaïnn Zwer, from 4 June to 23 July 2016. Gwendoline Perrigueux proposes a convoluted topology of the boudoir; figures both censored, ironic or paired with the absurd and the burlesque. Disrupting basic ideas of domestic objects in an exotism of color and pop art, the work of Gwendoline Perrigueux links the intensity of euphoric moments of melancholia to the full crystallization of the blues.

Bérénice Lefebvre’s creations endeavour to report her strolls in the heart of architectural environments in mutation. Captured by photography, her visual testimony of urban exploration is then broken-up and re-composed, giving rise to a series of altered images. She proposes shadows, more or less luminous, in a type of landscape: cartography, both brutal and sensitive, transfiguring the codes and the atmosphere of architecture, part real and part imaginary.

By coming together, the artists open a passage to a temporary, hybrid territory that occupies the gallery in space, time and imagination before it dissolves. Putting this into context(s), their work produces a fictional experience that evokes sight, body and emotions.

The universes of these two artists are placed in a dialogue/tension through the textual, rhythmic and poetic interventions of author Etaïnn Zwer: readings, imaginary “cartel-poems”, work in progress on the window.

The title she proposes, Peeping Space, is taken from the idiom “peeping Tom” or “voyeur.” The expression stems from the legend of Lady Godiva, who to convince her spouse to lower taxes, walked nude in the streets of Coventry, England. In gratitude, all the villagers remained shut away in their homes except the curious and disobedient Tom who discreetly watched her walking past.

By bringing in another viewpoint, it adds a kind of third eye, Etaïnn Zwer invites the visitor to accompany her in the role of a “Peeping Tom” and to see a different perspective - dream worlds, hidden stories and fanciful imagery - in the works of Gwendoline Perrigueux and Bérénice Lefebvre.

Bérénice Lefebvre, a fragment of a work in progress, 2016, various sizes

Gwendoline Perrigueux, work in progress, 2016, various sizes/ dimensions


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Bérénice LefevbrE, architectural testimonyBérénice Lefevbre was born in 1987 in Paris where she currently works andlives. Bérénice Lefevbre received a congratulations from the panel of judgesat the EESAB Rennes in 2012 for her diploma in fine arts (D.N.A.P) beforeenrolling in the ENSBA Paris where she received a diploma in visualexpression (D.N.S.E.P). Later that year she entered the artist-run studio,ChezKit, in Pantin, a suburb of Paris. Today, she is still an active memberof the collective.

After a post-graduate degree in 2015 at the studios of the Centre forEdition / Multiple at l’ENSBA, she participated in a number of projects with independent publishing house such as LaMaison&, Born And Die and Lubok Verlag.

Her work was rewarded while at the International Biennial of Engraving in inSarcelles in 2013, and she presented at the international salon of engravingand drawing at the Grand Palais of Paris in 2014.

She last participated at the Offprint salon in 2015 with her Lubok Verlagseries.

berenicelefebvre.tumblr.com/

selection of exhibitions2016

Born And Die, Nazdravlje#1, Under Construction Gallery, Paris.Lubok12 Sam Dukan Gallery, Spinnereï Liepzig, Germany.Coordonnées Pantin 2016, Contemporary art tour of Pantin,ChezKit.

2015 Biblioteca, Under Construction Gallery, Paris.Offprint, Atrium of the Ecole Nationales des Beaux Arts de Paris, Paris.Garden Parking, Salon of edition by artists, ChezKit, Pantin.Criss Cross, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris.Selective memory ‘‘Crisscross’’, Griffin Gallery, London.Irredux, curated by Katarina Stella, ChezKit, Pantin

2014 CMJN, Bookshop Volume, Paris.Je me souviens dans deux ans, 48-Init Gallery, Rennes.Iinternational Printing and Drawing Show, Grand Palais, Paris.

2012 Verre, mémoire de verre, pièces de verre, exhibition cycle, Mica Libre. Art Bitre Gallery, Galerie du Faouëdic and the Center of Contemporary Art ‘‘Le Quartier’’, Brittany.SUR PLACE, Standards Gallery, Rennes.

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Gwendoline Perrigueux, AN absurd and burlesque universeGwendoline Perrigueux was born in 1988. She lives in Paris and works inPantin.

After receiving a BTS diploma in visual communication, Gwendoline decided to follow the program at the Beaux Art of Paris. She developed her artistic abilities while studying abroad through Erasmus at the Central Saint Martin’s school in London. She obtained her DNSAP (diploma of fine arts) at the Beaux Arts of Paris in 2013 and founded the artist run studio at ChezKit with Cyril Zarcone and Coline Cuni.

After two residencies in Paris, one at the artists collective Curry Vavart and the other at Soisay Manor, she spent time in Sweden. Gwendoline participated in multiple collective expositions such as one at the footbridges of Pontault Combault and two at Galerie Perception Park in Paris.

http://www.gwendolineperrigueux.com/

selection of exhibitions

2016Group exhibition Jocus, at the CAMAC, Center of Art at Marnay sur seine.Born And Die, Nazdravlje#1, Arondit. Paris.Coordonnées Pantin 2016, Contemporary Art Tour of Pantin,ChezKit.

2015 Spleen et Idéal, Galerie Perception Park, Paris.Garden Parking, Salon of editions by artists, ChezKit, Pantin.Irredux, curated by Katarina Stella, ChezKit, Pantin

2014 Nous sommes KIT, ChezKit, Pantin. The illusion of life, Manoir de Soisay, La Perrière.Rebellion, exhibition of residency at KSAT, Galerie Oberkampf, Paris.Atlas of the least obvious, exhibition of residency at KSAT Malmo, Sweden.Playtime, Floral Park of Vincennes.Gourmandises, the footbridges of de Pontault Combault with the TheKit collective.Plug In II, on the proposal of Jean Daniel Pellen, Château of La Roche-Guyon, Val-d’Oise.Eternel Retour, Galerie Perception Park, Paris.Tropico Pisco, exhibition at the end of residency, CP5, Paris.

2013 Mix and Match, exhibition for the DNSAP, ENSBA, Paris.

2012 16 pieces, large salon, double exhibition by the 3 Borromée,apartment exhibition, Paris.

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etaïnn zwer, « Wordcatcher »

A freelance Swiss army knife (editing, press, communication) and poet(without the attached mythology), Etaïnn Zwer publishes and exhibits hertexts, poetic cards and collages for six years.She also writes songs and gives performance readings. Plus, she likes collaborating, misplaced bookstores, American literature, the night, to put a little mess in the jungle of verbal marketing, the unrestrained joy of a unknown or well-placed word, a pretty picture, greedy or disguised.Above all, she wished to finally have the time to create a tiny house series and complete a first novel that speaks of love and architecture…Her motto, stolen from John Waters: ‘‘If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!’’

http://etainnzwer.tumblr.com/http://onedollarpoems.tumblr.com/

publicationsAgent Double Fanzine, Paris, May 2016 Nazdravlje !, n°1 box series of the Born And Die collective (Paris, 2016) Terrain Vague (Earth Wave), Paris, March 2016 LIMO, edition Limo, Paris, March 2016 Belleville Park Pages n°6 + n°38, Paris/London/San Francisco, 2013 + 2015 L’Incident n°2 + n°3 (The Incident), Paris, 2013 + 2014 Correspondences n°2, Paris, 2013 CHORUS, dir.- Saul Williams, edited Simon & Schuster / MTV Books, New York, 2012

featured exhibitionsRe / Productions, + Cyril Zarcone, Galerie Éric Mouchet (Paris, 2016) Capsule #00, Torx space, P4 collective (Brussel, 2015) Les sens du beau (The feeling of beauty) + Lola Camus,The InternationalDesign Biennale (Saint-Étienne, 2015)Temps de trajets estimé à 27 minutues (Estimated journey time is 27 minutes) + Samuel Eckert, La Karambole (Paris, 2013) Grand Boucle + studio Mother Drucker, Galerie Urban Spree (Berlin, 2012)Mindland + Céline Barrère, Galerie Jacques Barrère (Paris, 2011)

collectives exhibitionsbibliotheca, Galerie Under Construction (Paris, 2015) Garden Parking, ChezKit Studio, (Pantin, 2015) Fade to Grey, Galerie 22RueMuller (Paris, 2014) Correspondences, Galerie 22RueMuller (Paris, 2013)

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Etaïnn Zver © Quentin Houdas

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ChezKit, An artist-run space in pantin

ChezKit is a modular artist studio and exhibition space created in 2014 by three artist alumnae of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts of Paris, Coline Cuni, Gwendoline Perrigueux and Cyril Zarcone.

Managers of the ChezKit association, the trio started the studio by asking nine artists to join their studio. This artist run space regularly invites young curators to exhibit in their dedicated space. On currently: Nous sommes KIT (2014) (We are Kit) and irrĕdux under the curatorship of Katarina Stella (2015).

The Artist-run studio space of ChezKit is part of the Coordonnées(Coordinates) network, a yearly tour of the contemporary art in the city ofPantin. The studio also integrates with the Zonard network created byLechassis in the beginning of 2016.

Bérénice Lefebvre and Gwendoline Perrigueux are two artists of the ChezKit studio.

ChezKit, 17, rue du chemin de fer, 93500 Pantin, France

View of the studio © Chez Kit

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Gwendoline Perrigueux, DUOS, work in progress, 2016, various sizes/ dimensions

Gwendoline Perrigueux, DUOS, work in progress, 2016, various sizes/ dimensions

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Gwendoline Perrigueux, INDECISE work in progress, 2016, various sizes/ dimensions



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la galerie eric mouchet, contemporary art in the heart of saint-germain-des-prés

Supported by a high level of quality and expertise, Galerie Eric Mouchet displays an eclectic and demanding programme, under the influence of its founder Eric Mouchet, an expert in graphic arts for the Appeal Court of Paris and a specialist of Le Corbusier’s drawing work.

Collector of international artists of the 70s-80s and young emergent artists, Eric Mouchet made the jump in 2014 to bring together his passion for contemporary art and his expertise while opening his gallery, 45 rue Jacob, Paris 6th.

Located in the historical cultural centre of Paris, Galerie Eric Mouchet shows real individuality and contributes to the opening up Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Eric Mouchet portraitCourtesy Galerie Eric Mouchet

exhibition and fair

Hou-chou, releasing birds, Ken Matsubara’s exhibitionuntil May 28 2016

Basel 2016, The Solo Project with the artists Pierre Gaignard and Cyril Zarcone13 - 18 June 2016

http://www.the-solo-project.com/

galerie eric mouchet45, rue Jacob75006 Paris

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