Joëlle de La Casinière – Everything’s Up For Sale / Everything Must Disappear

Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art is delighted to show the first retrospective of films, videos and graphics by the artist Joëlle de La Casinière.

The present exhibition has no intentions to provide an exhaustive chronological review of Joëlle de La Casinière’s entire works. Instead, multiple aspects of her work are allowed to percolate through the museum spaces. Text, image and music mingle to create poetic meanderings that lead visitors to encounter, for instance, the friendships that burgeoned in the artistic community at the Montfaucon Research Center she co-founded in 1972. Her fellow founders included her muse and friend Michel Bonnemaison, the young and initially stateless artist-poet Sophie Podolski, Portuguese poet Al Berto, Italian painter Olimpia Hruska and the group’s official musician, Jacques Lederlin.

Joëlle de La Casinière’s work is currently being enthusiastically (re)-discovered and has been shown in a number of galleries; at the International Poetry Centre in Marseille (2006), Dresden Kunsthaus (2010), Argos Centre for Art and Media in Brussels (2014), GB Agency Galleries in Paris, Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver plus in 2019 at the Ricard Foundation in Paris and at the Malmö Konsthall in a show curated by François Piron. Pieces by Joëlle de La Casinière have recently been acquired for permanent national collections in Paris at the Musée national d’art moderne and the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Tout doit disparaître is a reference to the first catalogue of the same name that Joëlle de La Casinière made in 2005 as an archival record of the Montfaucon Collection and of all her own publications since 1972.