Description
Facing the Citadelle in Besançon, home to the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation, “Reviens” evokes the memory of those who never returned.
During a research and creative residency in Besançon, and at the invitation of Juste Ici, Laurent Lacotte screen-printed 60 sweatshirts destined to become a protocol for the poetization of common spaces. A pretext for doing things together, taking a different look at our environments, saying and writing differently.
Action
For one day, on Saturday May 4, 2024, the Prés-de-Vaux will host the graphic and sound fair organized by the Juste Ici, Superseñor and 3615 Señor associations.
On the program: activities and artistic projects to discover with family and friends, inside and outside a 19th-century Bisontine paper mill house currently being refurbished to welcome artists.
Biographie
For more than fifteen years, Laurent Lacotte has been working directly in urban and suburban spaces and common areas. He questions the rules of these spaces, and beyond his actions and interventions, allows himself to draw up sensitive and poetic cartographies of the places he crosses. The participatory dimension is an integral part of his work, and has enabled him to work with a wide variety of audiences. Each immersion in a new territory is an adventure in itself, a pretext for discovery and contact. Writing and poetry play a fundamental role in her work. Through textual inscriptions in exhibition venues and public spaces, he gives voice to the people with whom he works. Attentive to the needs of others, he believes that art is a lever for exchange, and that it should speak to as many people as possible.
Laurent Lacotte teaches at Via Ferrata, the Beaux-Arts preparatory school in Paris, and is volunteer co-director of the ARCA springboard program at Doc, an artistic production and distribution space in Paris.
Crédits
Laurent Lacotte, Nicolas Waltefaugle, Anabelle Michon