MARTINE ABOUCAYA

The gallery has just published, in co-edition with Yvon Lambert, two works by Jacques Roubaud under the title CoVaRu, Compositions, Variations, Ruminations. Using freely the narrative arborescences dear to Roubaud and his family, the exhibition Les tiroirs du temps is nourished in a jumble of freedoms (of thoughts and of lives) approached in these books.

Built around the arts of memory and constraints, it presents artists greatly linked to writing, protocol, fiction and enchantment. The lexicon is perception, observation, contemporaneity, resonance, time, repetition, eternity perhaps, equilibrium, personal or collective memory, our singular histories, the déjà-vu (which Freud cited as already-dreamed), and thus gives pride of place to illusion in a scientific, slightly fantastic, whimsical, poetic and invented approach.

Readings, performances and meetings will be organized as soon as the weather is fine.