Tour de France des Frac : FRAC CORSICA
New youth for the FRAC Corsica
2023 is a year of renewal for the FRAC Corsica which will be marked by the launch of its new visual identity, the redesign of its website, the move of its reserves into a new building, and the publication of its catalog undertaken a decade ago. After the digitization of all of its video works in 2022, a new stage will also see the creation of a collection of podcasts entitled Fréquence FRAC, which will allow the public to discover singular productions wherever they are.
The FRAC Corsica in the heart of a cultural biotope
Based in the Citadel of Corti, the FRAC Corsica is located in the center of the island and participates in a dense cultural network that includes the network of museums of Corsica, but also the fabbriche culturali as Providenza in Pieve or Casell’arte in Venaco, the laboratoriu Casa Conti – Ange Leccia in Oletta, as well as the Biennial of Contemporary Art De Renava in Bonifacio. The Animu – A Mediateca di Portivechju, the Citadelle Miollis in Ajaccio, or the cultural center Una Volta in Bastia are also partners of the institution, as is Corsica Luce in Nonza. This artistic ecosystem develops links with the artists of the diaspora who live between Corsica and the Continent, while opening up widely to outside creation on several scales: Mediterranean, European, and international. Exhibitions, residencies, workshops, exchanges, participate in making Corsica a real artistic laboratory.
Highlights
Exhibition Pauline Curnier Jardin “Lente Passioni”
Until March 23rd
Curator: Fabien Danesi, director of FRAC Corsica
By turns fiery and baroque, kitschy and sensual, erotic and bloody, Pauline Curnier Jardinʼs work is an analysis in acts of societal structures specific to southern European communities. Her series of films on religious ceremonies places the symbolism of Christian rituals, and other pagan processions or carnivals, at the center of her vibrant observation, the better to physically ausculate them. Thus, her ethnographic approach takes place as close as possible to bodies and passions, the field study here requiring to be affected by its subject. Far from any objectification, Pauline Curnier Jardin’s camera auscultates behaviors and beliefs in a mode that privileges action over concept, lived experience over bookish knowledge.
FRAC CORSICA PROGRAM IN 2023
- Exhibition Emma Passera et Violette Wood
“Is something Missing ?”
From April 8 to June 18 - Exhibition Ange Leccia
“Video Ricordi” (provisional title)
From July 1 to October 22, 2023 - Exhibition “A terra di u Cumunu”
Fall 2023/Winter 2024
Curator: Fabien Danesi
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Agnès ACCORSI, L’âme hospitalière (2002) © Agnès Accorsi -
Ange LECCIA, La Mer (1991), Vidéo © Ange Leccia ADAGP Paris 2023, Collection FRAC CORSICA
Podcasts : Fréquence FRAC
- “Le Corps imaginal ” by Marcel Devillers
“Le Corps imaginal “is a poem written and read aloud by Marcel Devillers and soundtracked by Nils Maisonneuve. It tells of the exploration of a world where dreams and memories are embedded, but it tells perhaps above all, the exploration of the poem itself. - “Tribute to Bruno Latour”
The thinker Bruno Latour left us on October 9, 2022. Director Frédérique Aït-Touati and philosopher Emanuele Coccia pay tribute to him through a kaleidoscopic portrait that calls upon the memories of researchers, artists, and other theorists who worked with him. - “Sounds of Earth part. 2: Afterlife”
This is a mixtape conceived by Cindy Coutant & Theo Pozoga which is inspired by the “Golden Record” sent into space on board the two Voyager probes in 1977 containing sounds and images of the Earth and its inhabitants. In this part 2, hosted by Carl Sagan, a supergroup composed of Bugs Bunny, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Simba the Lion King (as a child), Kanye West, The Little Mermaid and Drake record a testimony of humanity in the perspective of its upcoming disappearance.
Interview with Fabien Danesi, director of the FRAC
Obviously, the FRAC Corsica participates in the development of contemporary art on the island territory. This means that it helps to network the various initiatives visible in Corsica for several years in order to boost the current scene. For that, it has in heart to support the meetings of the local actors, that it is the cultural factories as Providenza in Pieve and Casellarte in Venaco, the laboratories Casa Conti – Ange Leccia in Oletta and U Staccone in Moltifao, or the Biennial of Bonifacio De Renava. In this rural territory, it is important that these actions are not strictly isolated but that they map together a moving and fragile ecosystem, specific to minority expressions.
The FRAC therefore takes its full part in the constitution of this biotope. But it also wants to weave links with other scenes, Mediterranean, European and international. For an island, the stake of opening to the world is crucial because its geographical borders constitute a natural distance with the other lands. Thus, the FRAC Corsica intends to dodge the contradiction of modernity underlined by Bruno Latour: “to be attached to the ground on the one hand; to globalize on the other”. It is a question here of holding in the same movement these two perspectives by making of Corsica a ground of life for the plastic experiments. There is no doubt that the hybridizations which result from it create then new ways of feeling, of inhabiting and of thinking this terrestrial totality that we must continue to dislocate.
Fabien Danesi has a column dedicated to art in the program Baz’Art le Mag on France 3 Corse ViaStella.
Find all programs here.
The treasures of the collection
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Michelangelo PISTOLETTO, Naufrage avec Spectateur (2009), Photographie Rita Delogu, Collection FRAC CORSICA -
Monia BEN HAMOUDA, Aniconism as figurative urgency (Wahid), 2021, Courtesy ChertLuedde OHG, Berlin © Monia BEN HAMOUDA, Collection FRAC CORSICA -
Mimosa ECHARD, Love Moustiquaire (2019), Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris © Mimosa ECHARD, Collection FRAC CORSICA -
(mappemonde aux pines) papier press et fer (barbel), diamtre 180 cm env., 1966-2004 Collection Frac Corse
The FRAC Corsica is also :
– More than 80,000 visitors per year
– A collection of 521 works by 314 French and international artists
– 240 m² of exhibition space on the Corte site
– 3 exhibitions per year on the site of Corte and up to 5 exhibitions outside the walls per year
– 60 mediations on the site of Corte and 40 in all Corsica each year