The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future. In acknowledging fragility as one of few universally felt truths in our divided world, the Biennale assembles a host of creative practices and objects spanning two millennia that variously speak to the vulnerabilities of people and places, past and present, near and far. Conceived as a collective statement authored through word, image, sound and movement by 200 artists and creatives, it calls on a community of resilient voices to draft a manifesto for a world that is blamelessly fragile. The Biennale is structured around three distinct yet inter-connected layers, where fragility and resistance are explored through the lens of the individual, the city, and the world respectively.
The Many Lives and Deaths of Louise Brunet, on view on the 3rd floor at the macLYON, is a fictionalized retelling of the obscure life of Louise Brunet, a young woman who was sent to prison for her role in the 1834 revolt of the Lyon silk weavers, only to find herself a few years later on a perilous journey from Lyon to the silk factories of Mount Lebanon.
Beirut and the Golden Sixties, on view on the 1st and 2nd floors at the macLYON, highlights collisions between art and political ideologies during a romanticized era of global influence in Beirut – the city where Louise Brunet landed around a century earlier, beginning with the 1958 Lebanon crisis and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.
A World of Endless Promise, on view in twelve locations across the city of Lyon, embodies various faces of fragility through contemporary and historical artworks, new site-specific commissions, and a diversity of objects. It presents a panorama of past and current moments of global perseverance and proposes future forms of being in the world.
The destiny of Lyon has always been marked by the particularities of its people and the traces of their experiences. The 16th Lyon Biennale takes its cue from Lyon’s layered histories as embodied in the Roman foundations of Lugdunum, the echoes of Napoleon’s declaration of love to the Lyonnais, or the flickering images of the Lumière brothers actualités, just to name a few. manifesto of fragility takes its cue from these local accounts while it searches for connections beyond the limits of geography and time. Eternally cyclical, our fragility repeatedly rises to the fore, stares us in the face, regardless of who and where we are, then seemingly disappears, while it lingers on underneath time’s thick skin, dormant yet not gone, silent but never silenced.
- A.B. (éditeur)
- Abdullah Al Othman
- Abraham Van Der Eyk
- Adel Al-Saghir
- Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
- Alessandro Varotari dit Padovanino
- Alexandre Promio
- Alexandre-François Desportes
- Alfred Basbous
- Amina Agueznay
- Ann Agee
- Annika Kahrs
- Antoine Coysevox
- Aref El Rayess
- Assadour Bezdikian
- Augustin Thierriat
- Aurélie Pétrel
- Ayné (imprimerie Veuve)
- Buck Ellison
- Carlo Portelli
- Cemile Sahin
- Chafa Ghaddar
- Christina Quarles
- Cici Sursock
- Clemens Behr
- Clément Cogitore
- Dana Awartani
- Daniel De Paula
- Daniel Otero Torres
- David Teniers II dit le Jeune
- Devambez (imprimeur)
- Dia Al-Azzawi
- Dorothy Salhab Kazemi
- E. Caryocost
- Emile Vernet-Lecomte (d'après)
- Erin M. Riley
- Eszter Salamon with the Jeune Ballet of the CNSMD Lyon (under the artistic direction of Kylie Walters)
- Etel Adnan
- Etienne Dinet
- Eva Fàbregas
- Eva Nielsen
- Evita Vasiljeva
- Farid Aouad
- Farid Haddad
- Fateh Al-Moudarres
- Filwa Nazer
- Francisco Tamagno (imprimeur)
- Gabriel Abrantes
- Georges Doche
- Georges-Brunet Mahuet
- Giulia Andreani
- Hannah Levy
- Hannah Weinberger
- Hans Op de Beeck
- Hashel Al Lamki
- Hashim Samarchi
- Helen El-Khal
- Henri-Gatien Bertrand
- Huguette Caland
- J. Sibilat
- J.E Goossens (graveur)
- J.P. Clerc (graveur)
- James Webb
- Jamil Molaeb
- Jean Claracq
- Jean-Baptiste Charlier
- Jean-Baptiste Frénet
- Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
- Jeremy Shaw
- Jesse Mockrin
- Joachim Bandau
- Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
- Joanna Piotrowska
- Johann Gregor Von der Schardt (d'après)
- Johann Ludwig Rudolph Durheim
- John Hadidian
- Jose Dávila
- Joseph Basbous
- Joseph-Auguste Brunier
- Jr. Hudinilson
- Julian Charrière
- Juliana Seraphim
- Julio Anaya Cabanding
- Jumana Bayazid El-Husseini
- kennedy+swan
- Khalil Zgaib
- Kim Simonsson
- Klára Hosnedlová
- Laure Ghorayeb
- Leyla Cárdenas
- Louis Boulanger
- Louis Bouquet
- Lovis Corinth
- Lucas Cranach
- Lucia Tallova
- Lucien Jonas
- Lucile Boiron
- Lucy McRae
- Léo Fourdrinier
- Mahmoud Said
- Mali Arun
- Markus Schinwald
- Marta Górnicka
- Mehdi Moutashar
- Michael Zeno Diemer
- Michel Basbous
- Michelle & Noel Keserwany
- Mohamad Abdouni
- Mohammed Al Faraj
- Mohammed Kazem
- Mona Saudi
- Morelan (faïencier)
- Muhannad Shono
- Munem Wasif
- Nadia Kaabi-Linke
- Nadia Saikali
- Nadine Labaki and Khaled Mouzanar
- Nicki Green
- Nicolas Daubanes
- Nicolas Moufarrege
- Nina Beier
- Néstor Jiménez
- Olivier Goethals
- Omar Rajeh and Mia Habis
- Organon Art Cie
- Paul Guiragossian
- Pedro Gómez-Egaña
- Philipp Fleischmann
- Philipp Timischl
- Philippe de Lassalle
- Phoebe Boswell
- Pierre Combet-Descombes
- Puck Verkade
- Raed Yassin
- Rafael França
- Rafic Charaf
- Randa Maroufi
- Richard Learoyd
- Rémie Akl
- S. Farges (éditeur)
- Salman Toor
- Saloua Raouda Choucair
- Sara Sadik
- Sarah Brahim
- Sarah del Pino
- Seher Shah
- Semiha Berksoy
- Shafic Abboud
- Simone Baltaxé Martayan
- Simone Fattal
- Studio Safar
- Sylvie Selig
- Tarik Kiswanson
- Taryn Simon
- Tony Garnier
- Toyin Ojih Odutola
- Ugo Schiavi
- Vachon-Imbert
- Valeska Soares
- WangShui
- William de Niewkerque
- Young-jun Tak
- Zhang Ruyi
- Zhang Yunyao
- Özgür Kar
- And several anonymous artists…
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14 Sep — 31 Dec 2022
A — Z
16e Biennale
de Lyon