Chauffe Marcel Chauffe, Conversation with Rrose Sélavy, part of Radical Slowness Group exhibition, curated by Anna May Kirk and Tai Mitsuji, “The Lock-up”, Newcastle, Australia, March-May 2022.
“Aude Parichot’s drawing-installation Chauffe Marcel Chauffe: Conversation with Rrose Sélavy (2022) challenges the very idea of time and completeness in the museum or art gallery. Rather than presenting a “finished” work, Parichot produces an installation, whose very form is constantly shifting. We see the artist’s process in motion, as her artwork both emerges and recedes over the course of the exhibition. The process of artistic creation is no longer hidden behind closed doors but given a new visibility. As the work’s title suggests, Parichot is producing a dialogue that stretches across time by engaging with the idea of play, and the 20th century Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp. Through the act of play, Parichot refuses presupposed oppositions, blurring the lines between the personal and the collective; the living and the dead; and the fugitive and the permanent. “ Tai Mitsuji, Anna May Kirk, Curators of the group show Radical Slowness.
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