This year’s series of “TALKS WITH AND ABOUT” is organized in collaboration with Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, who shares Paris Internationale’s ambition to foster conversations and facilitate cross pollinisation of knowledge and ideas between members of the international art worlds. Curated by Alice Dusapin, this year’s programme takes up the subject of “Artistic practice, publishing and curating in non-institutional environments and spaces”. It will question the complexity, richness and significance of independance as a means of action.

Alice Dusapin is an independent editor, curator, and researcher. Co-founder and co-director of the journal octopus notes and of the publishing house Daisy, she also co-directs the nonprofit space Ampersand. She has received support for her research from the CNAP, the Michalksi Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the Terra Foundation, and is a resident of the Académie de France à Rome-Villa Médicis 2020-2021 in art history. Since 2024, she has been head of publishing at the Villa Arson in Nice.

PI: What is the central theme of this program?

Alice Dusapin: The program was conceived around this subtitle artistic practice, publishing, and curating in ‘non-institutional’ environments and spaces. This subtitle echoes a large part of my practice. In 2013 I co-founded the art magazine octopus notes, in 2017 the non-profit space Ampersand in Lisbon, and in 2020 the publishing house Daisy. Thought of today as a trilogy, these projects were all founded collaboratively, and are still run collaboratively. These projects were born quite simply out of a desire and a need to ‘do’, and above all to do autonomously. The idea of this program was therefore to share, through conversation, the complexity and richness of the experience of a number of people who have founded, run, or invested in these spaces. What does it mean to run a non-profit space, a magazine, an archive, or an estate today? What does it mean to try to do things differently, to be independent? And is there a vocabulary for talking ‘precisely’ about these spaces? What do their programs and research subjects consist of? All this fuels and redistributes a lot of obsessions, and it’s very exciting!

PI: How have you chosen the participants?

Alice Dusapin: All the participants are people I’ve had the chance to meet at different times and with whom I have ongoing projects for the most part. The idea, of course, is not to talk about those projects, but rather to take advantage of this invitation to develop and discuss their research and programs. These are people whose positions interest me and whose work I really appreciate, and I’m very happy to talk about them in public as part of Paris Internationale.

For the 3rd year running, Paris Internationale has joined forces with Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) for an exhibition program entitled MAINTENANT! Each year, 4 artists or collectives who have received support from CNAP are selected to exhibit their supported projects in the exhibition spaces.

As an operator of the French state’s cultural policy, the CNAP supports French and foreign artists as well as cultural actors on its territory. Despite their different functions and methods, Cnap and Paris Internationale have naturally joined forces to promote the French visual arts abroad, while at the same time making France a platform and a driving force for international artistic practices. As co-producers of the works and essential partners in the development of the careers of the artists they present, the galleries are an essential part of this ecosystem.

In 2024, Cécile Bouffard, Rebecca Digne, Nicolas Giraud and Françoise Quardon were invited to exhibit an artistic project that has received support from CNAP.

Pour la 3ème année de suite, Paris Internationale s’associe au Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Cnap) pour un programme d’exposition intitulé MAINTENANT!. Chaque année, 4 artistes ou collectifs ayant bénéficié du soutien à la création du Cnap sont sélectionnés pour exposer leurs projets soutenus dans les espaces de la foire.

En tant qu’opérateur de la politique culturelle de l’état, le Cnap soutien les artistes et les acteurs culturels français et étrangers sur son territoire. Malgré leurs différences de statuts et de méthodes, le Cnap et Paris Internationale s’associent naturellement autour de motivations communes : faire rayonner les arts visuels français à l’étranger tout en faisant du territoire français une plateforme et un moteur des pratiques artistiques internationales. En tant que co-productrices des oeuvres et accompagnantes essentiels au développement des carrières des artistes qu’elles présentent, les galeries sont un maillage essentiel de cet écosystème.

En 2024, MAINTENANT! accueille les artistes Cécile Bouffard, Rebecca Digne, Françoise Quardon et Nicolas Giraud.