The Fondation Fiminco Presents the Exhibition “Odyssées Urbaines”
On Thursday 8 June, the spotlight was on the Fiminco Foundation, as it presented “Odyssées Urbaines”, the end-of-residency exhibition of its third class of artists. Based in Romainville, the Foundation gathers artists from different nationalities and artistic fields to collectively create a selection of eclectic and insightful works.
For this project, artists have been asked to create a collective narrative around the space they inhabit together. Drawing from their own research, themes and reflections, each of them has seized the opportunity to experiment with new media in the production workshops.
Driven by this idea of travel, discovery, sometimes uprooting yet paradoxically anchoring, Odyssées Urbaines retraces part of the artists’ path through their creations, conceived especially to fit the three floors of the building, dating from the 40s. Transformed over the years, through processes of deconstruction and construction, the building itself becomes inscribed in the chronology of the exhibition: at once a place imbued with history for artists to work in, and a vehicle for visitors to embark on an immersive journey of exploration. This exhibition looks at the question of origins and the reading of various iconographic sources, highlighting the work of artists Rosario Aninat, Marielle Chabal, Sarri Elfaitouri, Eva Garcia, Timo Herbst, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Livia Melzi, Antonio Menchen, Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria, Angyvir Padilla, Yoel Pytowski and Chloé Royer, alongside curator Marie Maertens.
Photos: Ayka Lux
