As part of Ana Jotta's exhibition On peut... On peut encore, WIELS welcomes art historian and critic Clément Dirié for a lecture examining the artist's practice.
Drawing on ‘Une chambre en ville’, his exhibition organised for the Festival d'Automne en 2022 in Paris, Clément Dirié takes a cross-disciplinary look at Jotta's practice, focusing in particular on the different spaces where she lives and works: her apartment-studio in Lisbon; the art centres and museums where her work is exhibited (such as WIELS); and the domestic spaces she has recently taken over in Paris and Porto.
These passages and relationships between public and private spaces embody the artist's great freedom and her way of reshuffling the cards of cultural and artistic hierarchies. The talk also looks at the wide-ranging use of print in her work, one of her preferred means of expression.
In French
Free with registration
Alexandra Dautel
BIO I Clément Dirié is art historian, critic and curator and is editorial director of JRP|Editions. He is an attentive observer of both current artistic creation and the genealogies of contemporary art history. He is the author of numerous essays on art and design, including Iris Clert. L'Astre ambigu de l'avant-garde (Hermann, 2021).
In January 2025, he will publish a biographical essay on Suzanne Valadon (Les Pérégrines).
Recent exhibitions include Martin Barré, MAMCO, Geneva, 2019-2020; Horizones. 23rd Prix de la Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Fondation Pernod-Ricard, Paris, 2022; and Yto Barrada. Solidité lumière, Festival d'Automne à Paris, 2023.
In 2022, he organised Ana Jotta's exhibitions Une chambre en ville and A comme encre for the Festival d'Automne à Paris, eight years after their first collaboration in 2014.