Jean-Alain Corre, visual research by the artist for “Hibou TV Show” generated with the help of artificial intelligence, 2025.
Jean-Alain Corre, visual research by the artist for “Hibou TV Show” generated with the help of artificial intelligence, 2025.
Saturday, January 24, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (with a snack break)
Workshop for kids, teenagers & families (ages 5 and up)
With artist Jean-Alain Corre and author Gaëlle Obiégly
Registration required: publics@betonsalon.net
Children, teenagers and adults are invited to imagine together a grand parade, freely inspired by Mexican festive parades and the inventive energy of the ASCO art collective!
Born out of the Mexican-American civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the members of ASCO explored everyday life in their neighborhoods with a surrealist, critical, and performative approach, transforming the street into an open stage.
Throughout the workshop, participants are invited to imagine a song, invent colorful characters, make costumes and accessories, and then shoot a short film while parading through the streets around the art center. Inspired by the spirit of live performance and amateur theater, this workshop offers the opportunity to put on a small homemade show, where everyone has a role to play, whether in front of or behind the camera.
This workshop is part of the “Hibou TV Show” exhibition, a project by artist Jean-Alain Corre in collaboration with author Gaëlle Obiégly, which will be held at Bétonsalon from January 30 to April 18, 2026. Imagined like a modular television set, this exhibition will be an opportunity to revisit the content of our televisions while playing at making television. It invites visitors to explore the behind-the-scenes world of television production in a quirky and joyful way through different program formats.
The film made during the workshop will be broadcast as part of the Hibou TV Show program, which will be filmed and presented in the exhibition.
Jean-Alain Corre
Born in France in 1981, lives and works in Paris. His artistic approach revolves around what he calls Episoddes, based on scenarios written or drawn around the fictional character Johnny, who acts as a matrix at the heart
of his production in the form of paintings, sculptures and performances. Artistic materials transform these hallucinatory experiences into hybrid environments, where the influence of normalised everyday life on the construction of individual desires can be seen. Nominated for the Ricard Prize in 2014, Jean-Alain Corre exhibited at the 5th edition of the Rennes Contemporary Art Biennale (2016), at the Palais de Tokyo “Futur, ancien, fugitif” in Paris (2019-2020), at Pauline Perplexe (2018), at the Galerie Valeria Cetraro and at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca (2023).
Gaëlle Obiégly
Born in Chartres in 1971, she lives and works in Paris. She studied art history at the Sorbonne before obtaining a degree in Russian from INALCO in the late 1990s. A performer and writer, Gaëlle Obiegly has published twelve books with Gallimard-L’Arpenteur, Verticales, Christian Bourgois and Bayard. She pursues a unique literary career, committed to a form of impersonal self-narrative that questions language and the act of speaking, intertwining fiction, art, life and storytelling. In 2014, she received the Mac Orlan Prize.
