Après l’Éclipse: une nouvelle scene artistique

Les Magasins Généraux continues its commitment to emerging voices with a manifesto exhibition presenting a new artistic scene. “Après l’Éclipse” [After the Eclipse] brings together 10 artists who, from Paris to Marseille, have been electrifying the emerging art world for several years, shedding light on and narrating the concerns, struggles and imaginaries of a generation.

Both a declaration of love and a rallying cry, “Après l’Éclipse”  [After the Eclipse] gathers 10 artists together for the first time, who are forming a new and ever-expanding family in contemporary art. An affective community based on mutual support, shared references and artistic collaborations. These artists invent and shape powerful narratives, revealing and rendering tangible underground, peripheral and sometimes invisible discourses, drawing from their own experiences.

Bits and pieces of changing cities, life in the hoods with its joys and scars, questions of identity and cultural mixing, diasporas from former colonies, intergenerational transmissions, reinterpretation and reappropriation of archives and historical narratives, relationships to myths, roots and spirituality —  these are some of the questions addressed by these storytellers of the intimate through stories of family, love and friendship.

With hard-hitting aesthetics combining influences from music, the Internet, social media, sports, video games, mangas, science fiction, fantasy cinema and art history, their narrations take shape through a wide variety of art forms: drawing, painting, writing, photography, video, installation, performance, sound composition, 3D modeling, AI-generated images…

What emerges are ebullient, dreamlike imaginations, allegories and heroes reflecting the soul of multicultural youth, while transcending the anger passed on by preceding generations into an art that has the power to heal and reunite. An art in which solitude and stigma are eclipsed, making way for collective pride. An art that rises from the shadows of the Earth, soon to shine under the lights of a new sun.