a pop-up exhibition after residency for Elissar Kanso

Since this Friday, as well as this Saturday January 25, 2025, The multiple placein the Beaux-Arts-Boutonnet district, Montpellierorganizes the pop-up exhibition out of residence ofElissar Kanso “The story of modern caves”, chapter II.

An artist whose approach is deeply linked to memory, war and (religious) rituals in a context constantly displaced in between, a country of origin, Lebanon and a host country, France. His work, to be discovered, thus constructs a multifaceted discourse (drawings, paintings, performances, installations, writings) in the space and time between two culturally and politically different poles.

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As part of his residency at the Montpellier multiple venue, the artist continued research on the uses of black (ultraviolet) lightexperienced during a first residency around parietal art (first human gesture) in the prehistoric caves of Cantabria. Baptized The Tale of Modern Cavesthis first chapter thus “highlighted” the representation of “ reminiscence structures » in stratified plans, in reference to places subject to construction/destruction/reconstruction cycles.

This research on black light is also part of the artist’s reflection onuse of neon pink (linked to his contribution to the Digital Encyclopedia of Colors). Invented in the middle of the 20th century, a flagship color of the 80s, it has the property of absorbing ultraviolet (to re-emit in the form of visible light). While being a color of seduction, its role in his work, as a performing material, consists of revealing and revealing, between beauty and oppressive reality, a certain violence in society (codes of hyper consumption, overexploitation of resources, massive destruction , armed conflicts, etc.).

> Pop-up exhibition leaving the residence, this Saturday, January 25, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the presence of the artist, at Lieu multiple, 3 rue de Moissac, Beaux-arts-Boutonnet district in Montpellier.

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