Bye Bye His–Story, chapter 5050

Catalogue for the exhibition Bye Bye His – Story
Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Louvière, Belgium
27.03 - 26.09.21

History is generally defined with the apparition of writing; this valuable instrument allowing to create and transfer culture. However, writing also implies the beginning of a logic of separations and boundaries : its origin goes along in the first place with the need to record the heritage transmission of a patriarchal agrarian society. From this perspective, writing thus seems closely related to the concept of ‘property’.
Together with property, writing, as the first instrument to objectify nature, living beings and genders, was at the root of what would - throughout history - lead to conflicts and confrontations between cultures, mythologies, religions and ideologies.
The tensions in our contemporary world and its many crises (related to climate, ideologies, energy, culture and migration) urge us to adopt an open attitude, to dispel prejudices, to reconnect and build bridges between individuals, genders, cultures and nations to share knowledge, mental and cultural approaches as well as scientific disciplines, in order to find solutions together.
Far from being a literal illustration of these concepts, this exhibition brings together the art works of nearly 60 artists. With a touch of humor and the necessary aesthetic distance, you are being invited to surprising confrontations between art works dealing with (and questioning) various issues such as our relationship to the economy and to the dogma of growth, gender relations and diversity, our relationship to nature and to technology.

Artists:
Xavier Antin
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Jacques André
Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver
Babi Badalov
Charlotte Beaudry
Léa Belooussovitch
Aline Bouvy
Lucia Bru
Basile Bruneau
Marc Buchy
Stefano Calligaro
Mirko Canesi
Alexandra Chaushova
Michiel Ceulers
Thomas Couderc
Michael Dans
Denicolai & Provoost
Émeline Depas
Lise Duclaux
Alexis Étienne
Serena Fineschi
Kendell Geers
Laetitia Gendre
Agnès Geoffray
Valérian Goalec
Mathias Greenhalgh
Olivia Hernaïz
Eleni Kamma
François De Jonge
& Sukrii Kural
Nicolás Lamas
Hanne Lippard
David Maljković
Katja Mater
Fabien Mathieu
Gérard Meurant
Wesley Meuris
Adrien Meurrens
Marianne Mispelaëre
Marlie Mul
Jean Pierre Müller
Serge Onnen
Odilon Pain
Niels Poiz
Emmanuelle Quertain
Roger Remacle
Francesc Ruiz
Matthieu Saladin
Vittorio Santoro
Teresa Sdralevich
Clara Thomine
Endre Tót
Elliot Túpac
Nora Turato
Chloé Van Oost
Daniel van Straalen
Luca Vanello
Oriol Vilanova
Lois Weinberger