CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux’s 2024 season kicks off in March with a mid-career survey of Danish artist Nina Beier in Capc’s nave, co-curated by director Sandra Patron and chief curator Cédric Fauq.
Jasmine Gregory, a US artist living in Zurich, is exhibiting solo for the first time in France at the Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux in collaboration with the Centre culturel suisse On Tour in Bordeaux.
When art needs an essay to be understood
By Robert Nelson
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ACCA until 15 March
Thereâs an ingenious drawing machine at ACCA. On a raised platform, an armature pulls at 100 strings in a linear backward and forward motion. The strings run up the wall, fly across the space and tug at pieces of charcoal moored to the opposite wall.
Tracing inscriptions 2020, installation view
Credit:ACCA / Robert Andrew / Andrew Curtis
The resulting drawings resonate with one another in analogous actions. The spectacle is engaging, as you try to work out the engineering: how do the strings coordinate the curved gestures on the wall? On a symbolic level, the work is tantalising. Itâs like an allegory in which divine will is perfectly organised and controlled by a matrix, but perfect compliance does not eliminate chance and chaos.