SEQUANA – YAN TOMASZEWSKI
From 01 mai 2021 au 01 janv. 2022
"Sequana" by Yan Tomazewski is a sculpture and video project. It is closely linked to a somewhat forgotten Parisian identity: the link between the capital and its river, the Seine.
As part of his residency at Cneai, supported by the Seine-Saint-Denis department, from May 2021 to January 2022, Yan Tomazewski will develop a series of ceramic and glass sculptures which will be shown by an exhibition in Seine-Saint-Denis.
“Sequana” draws on the river identity of the City of Paris. The Parisian motto “Is beaten by the waves but never sinks” refers to a time when the Seine as an overflowing force was not yet channeled – literally and figuratively. By bringing together history as well as myths and folklore, Yan Tomaszewski’s project intends to observe the relationship that Ile-de-France residents have had with living things over the centuries. The healing, monstrous or productive Seine is in turn venerated, tamed, dammed. The project digs repressed trajectories between the sources, the tributaries, the extended members of the river on the one hand, and the head, the capita, which draws resources from it, streamlines its course and controls its impulses on the other. The “Sequana” project is a bodily, geographic, psychic, political drift – an oscillation between the desire to submerge and that to stem, at the same time as an opening towards future symbiotics.
He will also work with the Lavoisier College in Pantin with which he will lead a series of workshops allowing college students to explore / locate, fabricate / model, stage / film their territory to better understand it and discover with the artist different artistic practices.
In partnership with the Seine-Saint-Denis department.