Celina Eceiza - Dormance

Celina Eceiza (Tandil, Argentina, 1988) will present a new work at Frac Bretagne, continuing the thread of her most recent installations and projects through which she reflects, among other things, on institutional exhibition spaces and their potential to foster forms of hospitality towards the public.

Undoing the notion of the white cube as an ideal setting for contemplation, these works unfold as a total environment- one that visitors traverse while encountering a series of experiences that seek to draw art closer to the body, grounding it in a more physical, embodied, and relational dimension. Rest, leisure, temporary community-built architecture, and practices of care permeate the entire space, revealing connections between them in subtle, non-linear ways.

Through textiles and collective labour, the space is entirely held together by hand stitching, forming a single body that, throughout the journey, reveals and allows the emergence of diverse ways of relating to it. At the same time, the exhibition understands that institutional spaces acquire meaning when education mediates and connects them with diverse communities. Within it, a space will be created for the education department; a living site where activities will unfold over time, developed in close collaboration between the artist and the Frac education team.

Another fundamental aspect of the work lies in understanding one’s own practice through the work of others. Guided by the idea that neither art nor artists think in isolation, Celina will create a space shaped by selected pieces from the Frac collection that she perceives as expanding her own practice. In doing so, she reveals how artistic practice is deeply intertwined with bonds, dialogues, and relations with others.

• Celina Eceiza et Iván Argote, Delphine Bertrand, Amy Bessone, Nicolas Floc’h, Raymond Hains, Ed Hall, Shirley Jaffe, Jan Krizek, André Léocat, Marianne Marić, Valentin Noujaïm, Guillaume Pinard, Paul Van Der Eerden