Livia
de Goumoëns

Projects

Livia de Goumoëns – A Horse collection from or for Vanessa Rossetto / A Sound recollection

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Livia de Goumoëns – A Horse collection from or for Vanessa Rossetto / A Sound recollection

by Livia de Goumoëns

A Horse collection from or for Vanessa Rossetto Six images for and by V. Rossetto: an artist who makes music – or rather, who assembles bits and pieces to create music. This collection is a tribute and a demonstration of my love for her, life, images, sound. A Sound recollection : a selection of 25 sound collages made with my friend M.B., broadcast across five train station platforms. We piece together things we love and things we make. The sound plays every 13 minutes for about a minute. They provide a rhythm and they provide silence. Breaking the rhythm to reveal. And this probably only works when you establish a rhythm. Arrhythmia does not arise from a void but from its presence within a score that excludes it.

SLAP !

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SLAP !

with Geoffrey Cottenceau, Gina Proenza

Whether it’s a parade, a particle accelerator or a dance ball, SLAP invites you to inhabit a space from a gravitational perspective. Positioned on the boundary between two and three dimensions, the works are subject to centrifugal laws and find themselves exchanging with one another to create fortuitous narratives, as if the continuous round of which they were a part of had suddenly come to a halt. The exhibition space becomes the site of a fundamentally social event - in terms of the works it hosts and the exhibition context - and reveals the social perspective that the works hold in rela- tion to each other. Like a boring chat with a friend of a friend, some pieces are overwhelmed by their conversations, while others lend themselves easily to them. You’ll have no hesitation in intercepting some of the phrases exchanged between the works, while having the opportunity to: reply/nego- tiate/argue with the social time-space that SLAP, as a real static meeting point, offers for an evening.