SHOUT SISTER SHOUT
WITH HEJI SHIN, PUPPIES PUPPIES, EVA BARTO, NORA TURATO & JESSE DARLING
MAC MARSEILLE, FRANCE
AUGUST 28 — OCTOBER 3, 2021
To mark the inauguration of La Rose, a new art space in Marseille’s northern suburbs, Mégane Brauer presents Shout, Sister, Shout! For this exhibition, the two curators, Wilfrid Almendra and Céline Kopp, invited this young artist, who has been based in Marseille for three years, to accompany her works with those of Heji Shin, Puppies Puppies, Eva Barto, Nora Turato and Jesse Darling. These five artists were selected from the collections of Émilien Chayia and Sébastien Peyret.
The two curators say they “want to give it the strength of a hand clenched into a fist, by surrounding it with a community of practice or thought”.
Opposite the entrance, a vast collage by Mégane Brauer unfurls on two adjoining walls. Begun in 2016 at the Institut des Beaux Arts in Besançon, and still in progress, Ce qu’on nous donne à manger was described as follows on the occasion of a workshop at ISBA:
«A selection of objects taped and assembled into a sprawling patchwork resulting from the recovery of compulsive purchases in hard discount stores, from associative circles, wholesalers or company bankruptcies, all massively accumulated for a use that underlines the idea of “poor special offer”.
Elements incongruously interconnected in the most flashy and gaudy of ways.
Always in visual excess, this work uses precariousness as a scenario and amateurism as a way of doing things»
Mégane Brauer has installed a set of oil bottles with artificial sunflowers stuck into them. The title of the work La fin de nous (2021) is perplexing... Does it evoke the end of a love story, or is it a funeral tribute to those whose arteries have become clogged with too much bad fat, like those of the chicken eaten by the poor?
Facing Ce qu’on nous donne à mange, three painted dishcloths (Untitled, 2021) are lined up...There’s a pretzel with a “aux ingrats” (“to the ungrateful”), three yellow plastic seats from a waiting room with the words “à toutes les bêtes traquées” (“to all hunted animals”), and a label on which the word Detergianos is flanked by a salute “aux cœurs qui s’arrêtent parce que ça suffit” (“to the hearts that stop because enough is enough”)...
A little further on, on three sheets of paper, texts by Mégane Brauer cry out her anger, her revolt and assert her class allegiance, as we once said... They also offer a few “comments” on the works she has chosen to exhibit.
— Jean-Luc Cougy
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