Paulius Šliaupa is a Lithuanian artist based in Vilnius and Brussels. His IsV Tatar ancestors settled in Lithuania in the 14th century. This heritage, combined with his family's background in geology, shapes his work, which ranges from experimental film to relief painting.arbesnel In an installation featuring two videos, the artist explores fall and isolation. The first film depicts an infinite descent through drone- captured landscapes, evoking both childhood dreams and digitally- induced disorientation. The second film focuses on the life of a hermit in a Lithuanian forest, whose isolation and ingenuity reflect geopolitical tensions and the precariousness of the landscape. Together, these works weave a reflection on the vulnerability of the human and natural world, echoing the threats of ecological collapse and conflict.
Ludovic Delalande
https://www.fondationfiminco.com/programming-details/habiter_la_faille_EN.html
Exhibition of artists-in-residency
The Fondation Fiminco presents the exhibition of its fifth cohort of artists-in-residence. Under the direction of Ludovic Delalande, the twelve artists capture the urgency of living and the necessity of resisting the uncertainties of a world in perpetual transformation. An immersion into the heart of the fault line, between fragility and power.
With the artists :
Alix Boillot, Célia Coëtte, Mena Guerrero, Liên Hoàng-Xuân, Nile Koetting, Maxime Laguerre, Nefeli Papadimouli, Paulius Šliaupa, Valentin Noujaïm, Margarita Wenzel, Ankur Yadav and Jisoo Yoo.
"Habiter la faille" is a collective exhibition conceived around the residents of Fabrique 2024-2025, bringing together twelve artists from diverse backgrounds, yet belonging to the same generation. Through various mediums, each one offers a unique perspective to understand a world in constant transformation. Twelve viewpoints to capture the urgency of living in the present, the only bulwark against the impossibility of imagining the future. Twelve forms of resistance to face the same uncertainties and questions. Twelve ways of living and being in the world, here and now. Both witnesses and actors, each in their own way, the artists become sentinels. In the face of social, political, and environmental mutations, they sketch the contours of a silent resistance while affirming the necessity of an active presence, an indispensable commitment in the face of the incessant upheavals of our contemporary realities.
But, what can the artist do when they cannot?
Venture into the folds of the world, infiltrate the interstices, explore the zones of vulnerability, anchor oneself in instability, stay awake to transform the margins into spaces of life, despite everything: these are the strategies deployed by these artists. The rift, which resonates as a metaphor for our time, becomes here a fertile ground, a passageway and a place of reinvention, an uncomfortable zone from which everything can be redefined. It is from this discontinuity that the works presented here have emerged, all created during the residency.
The common thread that runs through the exhibited works is the body, the body as a space of experimentation, the body to create a space of expression. Whether it is inscribed in the figurative, symbolic, political, social, emotional, mental, or physical register, the body imposes itself as an inevitable presence. Omnipresent, it drives a dynamic, defines a reference scale, a shape and its outline, a position in space, a context, a weave, a territory. It becomes the prism through which a reflection on the diversity of the world, its immensity, and its incessant tremors unfolds. Could the body, in the end, be the last refuge? A space of one's own to land? A salutary landing point?
Twelve languages to rethink our relationship to space, from the body to the world, as so many avenues for reflection, confrontation, and protection. Twelve artists who, together, celebrate the fragility and resilience of humanity in the face of the tremors of our shared reality.
