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Xth Biennale de Lyon

"The Spectacle of the Everyday"

From 16 September 2009 to 3 January 2010 La Sucrière Museum of Contemporary Art Bullukian Foundation Bichat Warehouse Curator Hou Hanru Artistic curator Thierry Raspail Production manager Thierry Prat

We are living in the society of the spectacle. In spite of its alienating effects on our life and social relationships, it’s one of the very fundamental conditions of our existence. We perceive the world and communicate with each other through the spectacle – a system of image production and representation dominated by the logic of market capitalism which tends to “develop” our faculties of perception, imagination and reflection towards a “one dimensional model” formatted by the language of consumerist ideology. This is also the very contemporary condition of our self-identification and social order “guaranteed” by the established power system. As a main typology of artistic and cultural events of our time, biennials of contemporary art are no doubt an ultimate form of expression of such a tendency...

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The Biennale de Lyon is celebrating its 10th edition

The first three Lyon Biennials - in 1991, 1993 and 1995 – were part of a largely historical perspective, from which problematics, stakes and themes were derived. The first one, called “The love of art”, chose to assess the situation of creation in France. Resolutely going against the trend, this biennial noted that since the so-called “Pompidou exhibition” (Paris 1969), no such far-reaching project had been imagined in France.

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The European Biennial Network

The European Biennial Network is a collaborative structure that aims to promote dialogue, interaction and collaboration between contemporary art biennials in Europe.

For more information : www.europeanbiennialnetwork.org

The Biennale of Lyon is a Les Biennales de Lyon event