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© Ariane Michel, 2015

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Julien Bismuth, Alphabet de pas, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Michel Blazy, Pull Over, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

Michel Blazy © Adagp, Paris 2018

photo: Ariane Michel

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Florence Doléac, La pêche aux cailloux, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

Florence Doléac © Adagp, Paris 2018

photo: Ariane Michel

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Ellie Ga, Miroir Ardent, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Ellie Ga, The deck of Tara, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Dominique Ghesquière, Pierres roulées, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet © Adagp, Paris 2018

photo: Ariane Michel

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Jacques Julien, Le Keeque (after H.C. Westermann), exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Natalia Lopez, Une nouvelle à écouter, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Ariane Michel, À la renverse, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Bruno Peinado, Au bord du précipice, je sors mon rouge à lèvres et je procède à une ultime retouche de maquillage, un fauteuil pour Claire Guezengar, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

Bruno Peinado © Adagp, Paris 2018

photo: Ariane Michel

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Steven Pennaneac’h, RECORDABLE, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Abraham Poincheval, La Vigie, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Hugues Reip, Wawers, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

Hugues Reip © Adagp, Paris 2018

photo: Ariane Michel

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Pascal Rivet, Pied-à-terre, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Benjamin Rivière, Ligne d’eau, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

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Jean-Luc Verna, Baguette magique, exhibition view The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1, Cap Sizun, 2015

photo: Ariane Michel

Exhibition

The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1

a project by Ariane Michel

Virginie Barré, Julien Bismuth, Michel Blazy, Florence Doléac, Ellie Ga, Dominique Ghesquière, Jacques Julien, Martin Le Chevallier, Natalia Lopez, Dominique Mahut, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Bruno Peinado, Steven Pennaneac’h, Abraham Poincheval, Hugues Reip, Pascal Rivet, Benjamin Rivière, Éric Thomas, Gurvan Tymen and Jean-Luc Verna

Cap Sizun, Finistère


Ariane Michel, associate artist for the Breaking the Waves season (2015–2016) is presenting the project La Rhétorique des marées – Vol.1: a group exhibition and film shoot at Esquibien, Cap Sizun, in Finistère.

Twenty artists showed new works – sculptures and performances – along the coast between Lervily Point and the beach at Trez Goarem: art among the waves, rocks and local flora and fauna.

The works were situated along the shoreline between the equinoctial low tide mark and the first line of building plots. Thus they are literally exposed to the forces of nature: depending on the medium, form and location chosen by each artist, each work was subject to the site’s physical and symbolic influence. For the duration of the exhibition this part of the coast was enhanced by signs evocative of narratives, and traces of stories. The sun and wind and the ebb and flow of the tides gradually wore them away, setting up time warps as the works were gradually absorbed into their setting.

Specifically designed for this uniquely spectacular shoreline – it combines the features of an utterly untamed world with harmonious incorporation of the marks of human activity – The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol. 1 directly challenged the notion of a boundary between Nature and Nurture: are artists the same as other animals? Can making art be considered a “Natural” act? These were among the questions put to the stroller on the shore.

Ariane Michel, the project’s initiator and curator, is an artist and filmmaker, and lives in Esquibien. In an oeuvre whose constant concern is man’s place in nature, the central role of the animal, vegetal and mineral kingdoms radically upsets our perceptual scales and rankings. This exhibition was also the basis for a film in which people are “seen from the point of view of the landscape”.

This first segment of La Rhétorique des marées will be continued in the spring of 2016, with a solo exhibition by Ariane Michel at La Criée.



Files

performances

  • Sunday 5 July, during the opening
    Martin Le Chevallier, Éric Thomas and Georges-Henri Guedj
  • Saturday 11 July at 6 pm
    start of the performance of Abraham Poincheval
  • Saturday 18 July
    end of the performance of Abraham Poincheval
    conference – performance by Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet (6 pm, west parking Trez Goarem)
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Exhibition

The Rhetoric of Tides – Vol.2

Ariane Michel

from 18 March to 22 May 2016

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Season

Fendre les Flots

Ariane Michel

from September 2015 to August 2016