Exposure
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Exhibited in parallel at the Frac Franche-Comté in Besançon, the performers of Spanish origin evoke the feminist struggles and the obsessions that bring them together despite their twenty-five years apart and their aesthetic differences.
There are two of them, Esther Ferrer, 86 years old, La Ribot, born in 1962, sharing their Spanish origins. The first went into exile in Paris in the early 1970s, the second lived in her apartment in Geneva “not big but with a crazy view of the lake, I take advantage of it when I can, I never stop traveling”. Both are brought together at the Frac Franche-Comté in Besançon, in a double exhibition which multiplies the links between their practices, performance since the 1960s for Ferrer under the Franco dictatorship, performative dance since the explosion in Spain in the 1980s for La Ribot – whose next creation is scheduled at the Avignon Festival. Two artists separated by years but with common struggles and obsessions: the body, nudity, time, chairs.
Visit Esther Ferrer, on her ground floor overlooking the courtyard of the 11th arrondissement, to assess what unites them and beyond that, the differences. First, the social environment. We play in the same category: middle class for Esther Ferrer, a family of nine children, the art-loving father who works a lot to maintain a comfortable standard of living, a maid who helps his wife, a lot
