An Afternoon at The Emily Harvey Foundation

For the past three years, after many years devoted to dance, Diagne has returned to the visual arts. After creating two solos (Blabla and This line is my path), Diagne had a big success with his creation featuring three dancers, Banlieue. The piece reflects on daily life in the Senegalese banlieues and was co-produced by CCN Ballet Preljocaj-Pavillon Noir (Aix-enProvence, France) and the Institut Français de Saint-Louis. After performing at the Festival International Danse l’Afrique Danse! in Soweto, South-Africa, Banlieue was selected for a continental tour in 2013, performing in 18 different African countries. Apart from his own work, Diagne has interpreted the solo Flora by choreographer Kenzo Kusuda in Korzo Theatre and a role in Fagaala by Germaine Acogny’s company Jant-Bi. Since 2019, Diagne has been a part of an artistic residency in Stadsgehoorzaal in Kampen Nederland. Additionally, he founded Diagn’Art Dance Company in 2008, in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Since 2008, the Company Diagn’Art has been the initiator and producer of the International Duo Solo Dance, which is the only annual contemporary dance festival in Senegal. When it comes to his visual arts, Diagne has participated in several exhibitions shows in Senegal and The Netherlands.

Lune Diagne is represented by OH Gallery (Dakar).

Guillaume Leblon studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from which he graduated in 1997. He subsequently completed a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In fall 2022, the artist will be given a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France). He has recently had important solo exhibitions in prestigious institutions, including Guillaume Leblon | There is a man, and more at S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium) in 2018; Le poids que la main supporte, Panorama at Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, France) in 2015; A dos de cheval avec le peintre at IAC Villeurbanne (Villeurbanne, France) in 2014; Under my shoe at Mass Moca (North Adams, USA) in 2013; Une appropriation de la nature at the Musée de Sérignan (Sérignan, France) in 2012; Black Apple falls at the Fondation Paul Ricard (Paris, France) in 2011; Site of confluence at MUDAM (Luxembourg) in 2009; Augmentation and dispersion at the Culturgest Contemporary Art Centre in Porto (Portugal) in 2008; National Monument at the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry-sur-Seine (France) in 2006, and AZIMUT at the FRAC Bourgogne (Dijon, France) in 2004.

Guillaume Leblon is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Bruxelles).

Davide Balula, Charles Bernstein (human) and Charles Bernstein (machine) will perform a selection of synthetic poems from the collection “Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End: Poems of Artificial Intelligence” (NERO Editions).

Davide Balula’s multi-sensorial practice investigates chance encounters, random patterns, and the materiality of time. Although he works within various media, including sound, installation, and painting, his art can takes the form of recording devices, unusual measuring tools, and scientific experiments. He regularly collaborates with chefs, dancers, and musicians on performances and improvisation concerts. His solo exhibitions and performances have been presented at Performa 09, Centre Georges Pompidou, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and MoMA PS1, New York.

Davide Balula is represented by Gagosian (New York, Beverly Hills, Paris, London) and galerie frank elbaz (Paris).

Laurent Proux lives and works in Paris. In his painting and drawing, Laurent Proux produces powerful and original imagery that seeks through his formal choices to resolve the questions raised by his subjects. Described by some as a realist due to the subjects he depicts—industrial machinery, workstations, sexualized bodies, etc.­—his style finds its emancipation through his never-ending exploration of pictorial solutions, the integration of aberrations, bringing planes into collision, the use of artificial colors, all freeing his oeuvre from the opposition between figuration and abstraction. He approaches the human form through fragments, exaggeration and the use of silhouettes to create a kind of body-cum-machine, politicized and under assault, often disturbing and occasionally sentimental. His canvases take the form of a stage, in an altered perspective and the artist addresses the spectator with a visual and intellectual enigma running through the image.

Laurent Proux is represented by Semiose (Paris).

Julien Ceccaldi (b. 1987, Montreal, Canada) lives and works in New York, NY. He received his BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2009. Recently he held his first major solo museum exhibition titled Solito, at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2018). He has exhibited in several international galleries and institutions including Greene Naftali, New York, NY; Lomex, New York, NY; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Swiss Institute, New York, NY; the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; among others. Ceccaldi’s comics and drawings have frequently been featured in online and print publications, and he is the author of several self-published comic books.

Julien Ceccaldi is represented by Jenny’s (New York) and House of Gaga (Guadalajara).