{"id":301,"date":"2022-06-23T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/nouveausite2021\/?post_type=exhibition&p=301"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:49:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/exhibition\/degres-est-ouassila-arras\/","title":{"rendered":"Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras","raw":"Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u25cf Ouassila Arras (*1993, Juvisy-sur-Orge) will be the eighth artist to occupy Degr\u00e9s Est, a space dedicated to artists from the Grand Est region which features rotating proposals from three FRACs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited by Marie Griffay \u2014 the director of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne \u2014 the work of the Franco-Algerian artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Reims, usually takes the form of monumental installations. These often revolve around the notion of displacement, with a focus on family migrations linked to economic contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Building on her investigation of invisible communities, Ouassila Arras\u2019s work at Degr\u00e9s Est interrogates what it means to enter and inhabit a space. Having inherited a family story surrounded by historical silence \u2014 a muteness shared by both Algeria and France \u2014 the artist invites us to discover a specific social context. The genesis of the project was a meeting with former fighters in the Algerian War who eventually emigrated to work in France. Members of the Chibani community, they came to France in the context of large-scale national construction projects; having now reached retirement, they are currently housed in a hostel. Unable to feel at home in either the country of their childhood or in France, they live in ongoing material and emotional precarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition transcribes and translates their situation into new surroundings. The walls of the exhibition space are covered in clay that crumbles and disappears, like an untold story. Algerian henna covering the floor intersects with the clay\u2019s slow erosion. The dried pigment crumbles under the visitors\u2019 feet and spreads throughout the space of the FRAC. Should one enter, walk on the work, and mark up the shared space of the museum, or remain at the entrance, as a spectator? Ouassila Arras\u2019s work addresses pressing issues of cultural distancing, contamination, and displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ouassila Arras generally works on a large scale, in the form of monumental installations. This will be her \u201csmallest work\u201d\u2014the Degr\u00e9s Est room itself: one geography responding to another. The exhibition, accompanied by a limited edition of an autobiographical text by the artist, highlights what is hidden from our eyes. It invites us to reconsider the threshold at which we accept what has taken place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n

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\u25cf Ouassila Arras (*1993, Juvisy-sur-Orge) will be the eighth artist to occupy Degr\u00e9s Est, a space dedicated to artists from the Grand Est region which features rotating proposals from three FRACs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited by Marie Griffay \u2014 the director of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne \u2014 the work of the Franco-Algerian artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Reims, usually takes the form of monumental installations. These often revolve around the notion of displacement, with a focus on family migrations linked to economic contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Building on her investigation of invisible communities, Ouassila Arras\u2019s work at Degr\u00e9s Est interrogates what it means to enter and inhabit a space. Having inherited a family story surrounded by historical silence \u2014 a muteness shared by both Algeria and France \u2014 the artist invites us to discover a specific social context. The genesis of the project was a meeting with former fighters in the Algerian War who eventually emigrated to work in France. Members of the Chibani community, they came to France in the context of large-scale national construction projects; having now reached retirement, they are currently housed in a hostel. Unable to feel at home in either the country of their childhood or in France, they live in ongoing material and emotional precarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition transcribes and translates their situation into new surroundings. The walls of the exhibition space are covered in clay that crumbles and disappears, like an untold story. Algerian henna covering the floor intersects with the clay\u2019s slow erosion. The dried pigment crumbles under the visitors\u2019 feet and spreads throughout the space of the FRAC. Should one enter, walk on the work, and mark up the shared space of the museum, or remain at the entrance, as a spectator? Ouassila Arras\u2019s work addresses pressing issues of cultural distancing, contamination, and displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ouassila Arras generally works on a large scale, in the form of monumental installations. This will be her \u201csmallest work\u201d\u2014the Degr\u00e9s Est room itself: one geography responding to another. The exhibition, accompanied by a limited edition of an autobiographical text by the artist, highlights what is hidden from our eyes. It invites us to reconsider the threshold at which we accept what has taken place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_fr_post_content":"\n

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\u25cf La proposition de Ouassila Arras enrichit la programmation de l\u2019espace prospectif Degr\u00e9s Est, centr\u00e9 sur les artistes li\u00e9s au territoire du Grand Est. Activ\u00e9 par des propositions des trois FRAC du Grand Est, il introduit \u00e0 la diversit\u00e9 des pratiques artistiques actuelles, et souligne l\u2019engagement du Frac \u00e0 faire appara\u00eetre la pluralit\u00e9 au sein de la cr\u00e9ation contemporaine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Vue d\u2019exposition Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, f\u00e9v \u2013 juin 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo : Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d\u2019exposition Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, f\u00e9v \u2013 juin 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo : Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d\u2019exposition Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, f\u00e9v \u2013 juin 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo : Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Les installations de l\u2019artiste franco-alg\u00e9rienne se d\u00e9ploient autour de la notion de d\u00e9placement, notamment celui de migrations familiales li\u00e9es \u00e0 un contexte \u00e9conomique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poursuivant ses r\u00e9flexions sur les communaut\u00e9s invisibles, Ouassila Arras se concentre ici sur ce que signifie venir habiter un lieu. Porteuse d\u2019un r\u00e9cit familial li\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019histoire entour\u00e9e de silences l\u2019artiste choisit de nous mettre en contact avec la communaut\u00e9 des Chibanis, anciens combattants de la guerre d\u2019Alg\u00e9rie \u00e9migr\u00e9s en France pour travailler. Arriv\u00e9s avec la perspective de contribuer \u00e0 la reconstruction d\u2019un pays, retrait\u00e9s ils sont log\u00e9s en foyer. Ils ne trouvent plus leur place dans le pays de leur enfance, et disent ne pas l\u2019avoir trouv\u00e9e en France : chez eux nulle part, ils vivent dans une pr\u00e9carit\u00e9 tant mat\u00e9rielle qu\u2019affective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019exposition fait \u00e9cho \u00e0 la situation de ces hommes. \u00c0 la lenteur de l\u2019effritement d\u2019argile sur le mur, r\u00e9pond la pr\u00e9sence de henn\u00e9 qui contamine le sol du Frac. Ouassila Arras nous parle de mise \u00e0 distance culturelle, d\u2019assimilation, de traces de d\u00e9placements qui apparaissent. L\u2019exposition, accompagn\u00e9e d\u2019une \u00e9dition, met en lumi\u00e8re ce qui se soustrait \u00e0 nos yeux.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","_fr_post_name":"degres-est-ouassila-arras","_fr_post_excerpt":"","_fr_post_title":"Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras\ufffc","_en_post_content":"\n

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\u25cf Ouassila Arras (*1993, Juvisy-sur-Orge) will be the eighth artist to occupy Degr\u00e9s Est, a space dedicated to artists from the Grand Est region which features rotating proposals from three FRACs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited by Marie Griffay \u2014 the director of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne \u2014 the work of the Franco-Algerian artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Reims, usually takes the form of monumental installations. These often revolve around the notion of displacement, with a focus on family migrations linked to economic contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Exhibition view Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras<\/em>, feb. \u2013 jun. 2022. 49 Nord 6 Est \u2013 Frac Lorraine, Metz. Photo: Fred Dott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Building on her investigation of invisible communities, Ouassila Arras\u2019s work at Degr\u00e9s Est interrogates what it means to enter and inhabit a space. Having inherited a family story surrounded by historical silence \u2014 a muteness shared by both Algeria and France \u2014 the artist invites us to discover a specific social context. The genesis of the project was a meeting with former fighters in the Algerian War who eventually emigrated to work in France. Members of the Chibani community, they came to France in the context of large-scale national construction projects; having now reached retirement, they are currently housed in a hostel. Unable to feel at home in either the country of their childhood or in France, they live in ongoing material and emotional precarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition transcribes and translates their situation into new surroundings. The walls of the exhibition space are covered in clay that crumbles and disappears, like an untold story. Algerian henna covering the floor intersects with the clay\u2019s slow erosion. The dried pigment crumbles under the visitors\u2019 feet and spreads throughout the space of the FRAC. Should one enter, walk on the work, and mark up the shared space of the museum, or remain at the entrance, as a spectator? Ouassila Arras\u2019s work addresses pressing issues of cultural distancing, contamination, and displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ouassila Arras generally works on a large scale, in the form of monumental installations. This will be her \u201csmallest work\u201d\u2014the Degr\u00e9s Est room itself: one geography responding to another. The exhibition, accompanied by a limited edition of an autobiographical text by the artist, highlights what is hidden from our eyes. It invites us to reconsider the threshold at which we accept what has taken place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","_en_post_name":"","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"Degr\u00e9s Est : Ouassila Arras","edit_language":"en"},"tags":[33,7],"event-type":[30],"saison":[31],"lieu":[371],"class_list":["post-301","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","hentry","tag-degres-est","tag-exposition"],"excerpt":{"raw":"","rendered":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"saison","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/saison?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"lieu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fraclorraine.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lieu?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}