SHARING WITH ME

A couple of years ago when we had come for "Lille 3000", I seem to remember that the decorations in the main street, rue Faidherbe, were magical. This time I found them pretty heavy going.  In fact the street is supposed to open the way to the festivities. This time around it represented Carnaval from Rio with 12 totems, animals or symbolic creatures. Amazon Indians, dragons with flowers, fruit and even feathers to decorate them. Well here you can have a look and see what you think. I took the photographs on my way back to the Tripostal where there was another contemporary exhibition I would go to before returning to Paris. 

 Crossing the station there were 5 immense clouds suspended under the  glass roof. Two of them had been developed for Saint-Pancras Station London, but I saw no indication of which two and the others specifically for « Renaissance ». The clouds  are inhabited with travelers, their cases, all...

Remember when Marielle and I visited the Alfred Manessier exhibition and my theory about titles? I don’t really approve of a title when it doesn’t seem to relate in any  to an artist’s work. I may need to retract my words as coming into two very big exhibitions at the Tripostal, I really didn’t know what I was looking at. When I did find text and an explanation, most of the time it didn’t seem to relate to what I was looking at either…. 

The first exhibition was called :- « Tu dois changer ta vie » (You must change your life-style).  Such a title is supposed to make you wake up and act in front of the different installations or art work we were seeing. They explore the progress of science, new technologies and as you go along a chosen route you are supposed to become part of the work or the actor inside the work….I followed my designated route looking around but even so, with the exception of some videos or installations, it was very unclear to me. 
Coming...