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  • Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet

    75013 Paris
    +33.(0)1.45.84.17.56
    Postal address
    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Université de Paris
    5 rue Thomas Mann
    Campus des Grands Moulins
    75205 Paris Cédex 13
  • Running waters
  • Running waters

    Running waters
    A res­i­dency crossed by The Bièvre river between Pauline Perplexe and Bétonsalon

    The Bièvre River flows into the Seine in Paris, at the Austerlitz train sta­tion, after a 35 km journey through the depart­ments of Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne and Paris, where it used to flow through the 13th and 5th arrondisse­ments. Its sources are in La Minière ponds, near Guyancourt. Once open to the air, it has suf­fered the fate of many small urban rivers: pol­luted, chan­nelled and dis­persed. It has been com­pletely cov­ered in Paris since 1912 and in the sub­urbs from Antony to Gentilly since the 1950s, with the excep­tion of short sec­tions recently brought to light. In Arcueil, The Bièvre flows under Pauline Perplexe, a former family house run by artists and con­verted into an inde­pen­dent place of artistic pro­duc­tion and exhi­bi­tion, and con­tinues under­ground, indis­cernible, near Bétonsalon, in the 13th arrondisse­ment.


    The cov­ered riverbed of the Bièvre under the garden of Pauline Perplexe in Arcueil, March 2022 © Pauline Perplexe.

    Taking as a pre­text and source of inspi­ra­tion the path of this under­ground water that links Pauline Perplexe to Bétonsalon, we will take advan­tage of this invis­ible link to cor­re­spond, send mes­sages in bot­tles, pursue artistic research and share it. Through monthly meet­ings com­bining visits, walks, work­shops, sur­veys of texts and paths, this pro­ject will be an oppor­tu­nity to share our prac­tices and know-hows. Each ses­sion will include an invi­ta­tion to a researcher, artist or activist, who will bring another approach to the issues addressed.

    Running waters receives the sup­port of the Ministry of Culture - DRAC Ile-de-France within the frame­work of the deploy­ment of SODAVI-F, Schéma d’Orientation pour les Arts Visuels en Ile-de-France.

    Session 1: The Gobelins stream
    Thursday 24 March, 12.30 pm
    Manufacture des Gobelins, 42 avenue des Gobelins, 75013 Paris.

    It was on the banks of the Bièvre, whose waters were reputed for their dyeing qual­i­ties, that a scarlet dyeing industry was set up at the end of the Middle Ages, which grad­u­ally became the royal tapestry work­shops and the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. At the begin­ning of the 20th cen­tury, it was on the site of the former gar­dens of the Manufacture, and above the "ravine of the Bièvre", which had already been cov­ered/already cov­ered, that Auguste Perret erected the building of the Mobilier national.

    Guided tour of the Manufacture des Gobelins, fol­lowed by a walk in the 13th arrondisse­ment.
    With : Mathilde Belouali, Marie Bette, Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.
    Free, upon reg­is­tra­tion at info@­be­ton­salon.net

    Pauline per­plexe

    Programme of the next ses­sions to come.

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