Season 2 in Paris - Entangled Life

There is no possible understanding of the living being except to conceive it as an entanglement, an intertwining, an entanglement. The notion of entanglement and intertwining is opposed to that of separation. To tie up with the living is to intertwine what has been left behind, to plead that the entanglement is the architecture of the living in all its extent and diversity, it is to accept the entanglement with the non-humans and all the elements of nature. The living is an entangled and intertwined continuity.

We borrow the title of this second season from Merlin Sheldrake's book The Entangled Life, which evokes the immense power of the mycelium that is inserted all around us and plays a decisive role in the concert of living things, notably by linking the entire plant world and a large part of the animal world.

 We formulate a hypothesis. This one consists in particular in seeing in the use of the techniques of weaving, of embroidery in the art a perfect metaphor of an art of the interlacing and the entanglement. We therefore wished to invite artists who weave, braid, bind materials, who celebrate the relationship as that which is knotted in an infinite weft.

 In particular, fiber will be one of the narrative wefts of this second season. If, in the etymological sense, fiber is what is at the end, in the sense of use, fiber is what is at the heart of the material when we break it down, unravel it. The fiber is a binder whether it is of vegetable, animal or mineral origin, or even closer to our contemporary world, the artificial fiber is the binder of all current communication.

 For this second season of residencies, Foundation LAccolade welcomes six artists, Luz Moreno Pinart, Elodie Antoine, and the collective FIBRA (Lucia Monge, Gianine Tabja, Gabriela Flores del Pozo).