𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 – Vanina Langer & Magali Wehrung

At PRÉÀVIE, March 15 to 28

Opening March 15 at 5pm

PARADE PARURE PAYSAGE

PARADE PARURE PAYSAGE invites us to a sensory and spiritual immersion, where landscape becomes ritual and art becomes celebration. The duo of visual artist Vanina Langer and culinary artist Magali Wehrung celebrate our connection to nature and the cycles that shape it. Representing the union of body and earth, they summon seven deities of fertility and the living, adorned with flavors that the spectator can savor, in order to make the world, and celebrate life with delectation. PARADE PARURE PAYSAGE is a dialogue woven between the plastic arts and textiles, ceramic design and culinary art, performance and ritual, sketching out a baroque and abundant celebration, vibrant with joy and vitality.

PARADE PARURE PAYSAGE draws on popular traditions and pagan festivals, reactivating ancestral practices that bear witness to another way of inhabiting the Earth, no longer as predators, but as allies and protectors of the living. A process of regeneration that is not only biological, but also a different way of caring, a gesture of repairing the world, a commitment to what sustains us, as Emilie Hache so aptly reminds us in her book “generation.

Our troubled times call for the need to reinvent states of being in the world that are aware of planetary realities and finite, limited resources, without sinking into gloom. On the contrary, the work of Vanina Langer and Magali Wehrung revives the art of abundance, ornament and complexity, filled with color and emotion. In so doing, they celebrate what makes us flesh beings, too often sacrificed on the functionalist altar of modernity.

The works on display embody this joyful and generous imagination, where women wear sweet ornaments, headdresses and chewy costumes, adorned with numerous fertility symbols such as the house, fruit, flowers and eggs. Bread, a universal symbol of life, is used here as a material to be shaped before being shared. Cooking becomes metamorphosis, alchemy, linking us to the elements and the age-old gestures of sharing. Costume art harks back to popular traditions, while ceramics embody the memory of the earth. These are all elements that link humanity to nature, recognized as an active force, an otherness with which we must come to terms, in a historical, spiritual and relational continuity.

Much more than an exhibition, PARADE PARURE PAYSAGE becomes a landscape in its own right, a time-space for our relationship with materials, shapes and flavors. The Parade Gloria is its most vibrant expression: a dance of renewal in which the feminine and the seasons, art and fertility, intertwine. This cosmic symphony traces the path to a possible harmony with the Earth, turning collective joy into a political force.

PROGRAM :

MARCH 15 | VERNISSAGE :

– 5pm | GLORIA goddesses parade through the asphalt liner, warmed by Basile Théoleyre’s music and colored by Audrey Matt-Aubert’s pictorial apparitions.

– 6:30 pm | Opening of the exhibition and tasting of the works

– 7pm – 12am | Discover the exhibition and meet the artists over a drink and brioche.

– 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm | Astrologer Elsa Izquierdo and taromancière Mathilde Viot will welcome you to a mysterious corner if you wish to take your destiny into your own hands.

– 9pm | Concert by EASTERN CHORBA: 4 multi-instrumentalist musicians reappropriate traditional repertoires (Klezmer, Gypsy, Balkan, Georgian).

Followed bya Dj set for the end of the evening.

MARCH 21 :

– 19h – 22h | Jam session open to all

MARCH 22 :

– 4-7pm | Spring flower workshop, inspired by the Kyrgyz practice of “Kurak” with Vanina Langer & Magali Wehrung

MARCH 23 :

– 5pm | Tearoom and snack with shortbread and brioche

– 16h – 18h | Sign-making workshop

MARCH 25 :

– Towel embroidery workshop with kindergarten classes

MARCH 27 :

– 5pm – 7pm | Brioche and sweet bread-making workshop with Magali Wehrung and PRéàVIE residents

MARCH 28 | FINISSAGE :

– La Parade du printemps (Departure Place Anatole France) : R hemed-up, participatory re-enactment in the streets of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, of all the workshops held during the exhibition. With the participation of the Coquelicots and Bleuets classes from the Rosa Parks school (creation of a collective work of art), the CE1B class from the Anatole France school (choir) and the goddesses: Vanina, Magali, Lucie, Esther, Camille, Julie, Pauline, Margot, Sylvie, Pauline, Layal, Tina, Hanaé & Gloria

Event organized by Soukmachines