Ève Gabriel Chabanon
"Chapter 3"
11 July – 4 October 2020
| Opening | Friday, 10 July 2020, a prior registration is requested |
| Venue | Westfälischer Kunstverein, Rothenburg 30, 48143 Münster |
| Opening Hours | Tuesday-Sunday 11 am-7 pm |
| Admission | 4 € / concessions 2 € / members free |
The exhibition Chapter 3 by the French artist Ève Gabriel Chabanon (b. 1989, lives and works in Brussels) provides an insight into their long-term discursive, performative project that revolves around the economic category of surplus, which they began in 2016 and titled The Surplus of the non-producer.
In the shape of her concept of the non-producer, Chabanon takes up the kind of (unproductive) work that, according to a Marxist understanding, doesn’t produce surplus value. In particular, this includes artists, (art and) craftspeople and other cultural workers who find themselves in exile due to migration and encounter difficulties in pursuing their profession. In 2016, Chabanon began working with some »non-producers« from the region around Paris, with whom they set up a kind of collaborative »think tank« geared towards a transcultural exchange of knowledge and skills as well as the development of a community. Ève Gabriel Chabanon has developed a spatial installation and fragments of a video work from this collaborative process. The exhibition thus marks an intermediate step, a breathing space and a taking stock or site analysis of such a protracted and intensive project. Central to the project’s thematic arc is the value of an individual’s (usually increasingly non-material) work in a familiar – one's own – and/or alien cultural landscape.
The exhibition "Le Surplus" at Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche in Paris was shown from January 29 to (planned) April 25, 2020. It was closed early due to measures to combat the spread of the corona pandemic.
Chapter 3 at Westfälischer Kunstverein is Ève Gabriel Chabanon’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany.
The artist has produced a series of 100 ceramic mugs that are on sale during the opening hours of the exhibition.
Fig.: Ève Gabriel Chabanon „Le Surplus“, 2020; Installation view Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris / Foto: Aurélien Mole
Opening
Friday, 10 July 2020, 6-9 pm, registration required
given the current circumstances, there won't be an opening reception.
However, we cordially invite you to take part in exhibition tours. At every full hour the artist Ève Gabriel Chabanon and director Kristina Scepanski will give a tour through the exhibition. The groups are limited to a number of 20 people max., thus we kindly ask you to register in advance for a tour at either 6, 7 or 8 pm, by e-mail: info@westfaelischer-kunstverein.de.
"Chapter 3. Footnotes and Annotations"
Friday, 24 July 2020, 5-7 pm, CEST, in English
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Guest speakers:
Sophie Cras, art historian, Paris
Cédric Fauq, curator and writer, Paris
Abdulmajeed Haydar, scriptwriter, member of Ève Chabanon’s collective, Paris
Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, dramaturge, Interkultur Ruhr, Essen
Ingrid Luquet-Gad, writer, Paris
Inès Mesmar, director La Fabrique NOMADE, Paris
Co-hosts:
Ève Gabriel Chabanon, artist
Mathilde Belouali-Dejean, curator, Bétonsalon, Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris
Ceramics "Surplus" | 100 mugs
For the exhibition at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Ève Gabriel Chabanon has handmade 100 ceramic mugs from glazed stoneware and underglaze pigment. On the one hand, these mugs are art objects in the exhibition space, but at the same time they are also objects for sale that visitors can buy. During the exhibition, Ève Gabriel Chabanon replays the sales process, while subjecting it to new rules. The price of the pieces goes up in proportion to their destocking, according to an exponential curve drawn by Sophie Cras, senior lecturer in art history and economics graduate. If the first mug is put on sale at its cost price of € 20, the prices of the following mugs rise slowly at first, then accelerate to reach prices that are those of works of art. This approach, which points out the absurdity of a system of values, joins and prolongs Chabanon’s artistic questioning economic processes on a personal and global scale.
The mugs are available for sale until the end of the exhibition (4 October 2020), during the opening hours of Westfälischer Kunstverein. Payments in cash only. Each mug is unique, the buyers receive a certificate. The proceeds go entirely to the artist.
An exhibition co-produced by Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
The exhibition was funded by Kunststiftung NRW
With kind support and part of the PERSPEKTIVE Fund for Contemporary Art & Architecture, an initiative of the Bureau des arts plastiques of the Institut français. Supported by the French Ministry of Culture and the Goethe Institut.
Supported by L&S GmbH Co. KG and Licht + Werbetechnik Hermann Brück GmbH.
