Description
Created from their explorations of industrial wastelands, marginal areas and the rejects of consumer society, the BRIC-À-BRAC exhibition brings together, repurposes and showcases objects and actions gleaned in Montbéliard and Sweden. Cars, bicycle frames, padlocks, images of actions and architecture convey creative perspectives on civil disobedience.
In the mobile unit, the travelling exhibition shows videos of their actions on media, posters and zines, small handmade books, as well as a game/padlock symbolising their curiosity about abandoned places. At 19 CRAC, the exhibition also includes abandoned cars, photos and video documentaries, models of their living spaces, and paintings and sculptures made from recycled materials.
Action
Bien Urbain 12
10 days : from 7 to 15 June 2025
17 invited artists or artist collectives : 3615 Señor (FR) // Adélaïde Racca (FR) // Blo (FR) // Carole Douillard (FR) // Carole Karlen-Renahy (FR) // Charlotte Beltzung (FR) // Chuglu (FR) // Club Superette (FR) // Duncan Passmore (UK) // Florent Dubois (FR) // Hélène Marian (FR) // ici l’onde (FR) // Julien Berthier (FR) // Laura Tisserand (FR) // Magnétophonie (FR) // Martin Le Chevallier (FR) // Toxoplasma (SW)
Biographie
Toxoplasma is a duo formed by two Swedish artists: Olabo and Akay.
Akay & Olabo have a history of graffiti art and creating illegal installations and acts of artistic vandalism in forgotten places. They infiltrate abandoned sites to install their creations, which combine humour and generosity, illegality and subversion, ephemerality and playfulness.
Their work combines urban exploration and artistic actions. Their anonymous works are scattered throughout neglected places or busy city centres. Huge slogan paintings, pirate rope ladders, fake CCTV installations, free shops…
Crédits
Juste Ici, Anabelle Michon, Elisa Murcia Artengo