For this exhibition, Pauline Ghersi is staging an installation of the hilarious mini-series Gros-problème, which pokes fun at the clichés of the art world and its work organisation. It's a ferocious mise en abîme that wrings out all the problems faced by young emerging artists.
Gros Problème was filmed at Glassbox with employees and art workers of the run-space, who played and exchanged roles in a Forum Theatre style. The series was supported by the Fondation des Artistes.
Pauline Ghersi graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2017. Her artistic practice combines TV series, films, video installations, sculptures and performances. She observes and interprets group dynamics structured by more or less underlying power relations, in precarious social conditions: flat-sharing, the street, minimum old-age benefits, or indebted artistic structures. These contexts allow her to imagine characters in a crisis of legitimacy, identity and masculinity, and to explore our tender and pathetic relationship with consumerism.
Her work has been shown at Secession in Vienna, Glassbox in Paris, CAC Passerelle in Brest, Etablissement d'en Face in Brussels, Crac Alsace and Soej Kritik in Leipzig, among others. She has been in residence at various institutions, including Triangle - Astérides in Marseille, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims and soon at the Centre d'Art Les Capucins in Embrun.
Audience
All public