“Stakeholders” is now a regular event at Bétonsalon: with each new exhibition, we organize a collective session where we delve into the archives of a past exhibition. It is an opportunity to explore the history of Bétonsalon and Villa Vassilieff by collectively examining the traces, narratives, memories, and voices of previous projects.

For this new session, we are opening the archives of “La Moitié des Choses”, curated by Mélanie Bouteloup and Nicolas Fourgeaud. In 2010, five artists – Simon Fravega, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Chloé Quenum, Benjamin Seror et Clément Rodielski) – were invited to produce works and present them at Bétonsalon through three successive exhibitions and openings, accompanied by activations, performances and two publications. A true laboratory for experimenting with the spatial potential of Bétonsalon, this exhibition aimed to make tangible the creative processes as well as the aesthetic and semantic shifts engendered by the formal and temporal indeterminacy of the works on display. Like Hedwig Houben’s exhibition The Untamable Hand, in which each element contains a multitude of forms of interaction, “La Moitié des Choses” aimed to show “how an object can slip into becoming an event and vice-versa, without one even noticing”.

We look back at this exhibition in the presence of Nicolas Fourgeaud and some of participating artists.