Sweet days of Discipline
Exhibition
From 27 September 2024 to 02 February 2025
From 27/09/2024 to 02/02/2025
Opening hours on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 2 pm and 6 pm.
“Sweet Days of Discipline” is an exhibition that brings together the 44 artists who graduated from Villa Arson in 2023. It is organized by the editors (Alice Dusapin, Martin Laborde and Baptiste Pinteaux) of the art magazine octopus notes.
“How did you feel a year after leaving school? What was your life like? What do 44 artists who graduated just a year ago have in common?” To help us answer these questions, we asked several artists whose practices clearly echoed those in the exhibition. Their answers reflect some of the immediate concerns of young graduates. They speak of economic hardship, the desire to distinguish themselves, to find personal tools for expression, the need to create a void in response to the social injunctions of the art world, and the need to better understand how to make their idea of an artist’s life coincide with the means at their disposal. But all these difficulties never overcome a light and optimistic nostalgia, that of a casual energy that the title of the exhibition, Sweet Days of Discipline, borrowed from Fleur Jaeggy’s novel, should convey here.
