CONFLUENCE by Marie Lorenz explores the notions of common goods and places. Observing the relationships between an environment and the organisms that inhabit it, the artist sees her subjects as fellow travelers, from whom it is possible to move reality towards a poetics. She adopts an an anthropological posture of “participant observation [through which] the correspondence, whether with people or with other things, is a labour of giving back what we owe to the human and non-human beings with which and with whom we share our world, for our own existence and formation.” By surveying territories, she produces new narratives like a storyteller.

The possibilities arising from the encounter between existing and fantasized narratives also form the basis of Gaëlle Cognée’s work. The artist began exhibiting in 2009 with Plafond collective, which creates site specific projects and considers the transmission of its practice. Since then, her personal work (video, photography, writing, performance) has also been nourished by the sites of her research, and her works, based on principles of assemblage, tiding their stories to History.

Assemble is a multidisciplinary collective working in the fields of architecture, design and the visual arts. Founded in 2010 to design a single project (The Cineroleum, the temporary occupation of a former service station in London by a cinema), Assemble has since delivered a diverse body of work recognised by international awards (including the Turner Prize in 2015 in the United Kingdom for The Granby Workshop in Liverpool). They promote a democratic and cooperative working method that enables the production of artistic projects that are co-constructed and socially engaged by nature, and always based on the exploration of a place, a territory or a situation investigated “from the inside”. Their projects combine all the scales of construction to generate “learning by doing” situations.