douce france
interactive installations, sculpture, video, graphic works
Douce France is in situ project for Abbey de Maubuisson.The Abbey appears to Olga Kisseleva as a paradigm of this “Douce France” she had dreamed in Russia. But her work is ironical, it draws up an image of a globalized world, dominated by capital and formatted by technology. Complexes and multiform, Kisseleva’s proposals translate with coherence a feeling of confusion and of alienation. But it reveals also a strong engagement to find a way to establish an energy exchange between all parts of actual society. The show takes a form of an work in progress which brings together science, philosophy, new forms of urban expressions, locative media and social network.
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Douce France, Contemporary Art Centre Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen l’Aumone, France, 2007-2008 (solo show)
Mondes Croisés, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Archibooks, Paris, France, 2008, text by Elisabeth Lebovici(pdf) /french & english/
Press release (pdf) /french/
Elisabeth Lebovici A world in a convent /french /english /
Liberation, Paris, France, January 28th 2008, Marie Lechner, L'Hexagone est pavé de bonnes intentions, (pdf)/french /
l'Humanité, Paris, France, January 22 2008, Maurice Ulrich, Numérique et critique à l'abbaye (pdf)/french/
Connaisance des arts Paris, France, January 2008 Olga Kisseleva, la reine des méqias (pdf) /french /
La Parisien, Christophe Lefevre, "L'Abbaye de Maubuisson a seduit", Paris, France, October 7th 2007(pdf) /french/
Fabrice Macaux L'HOMME INTÈGRE SE DÉSAGRÈGE /french /
Christophe Kihm Olga Kisseleva : signs that don’t lie. /french /english/
Art Actuel ( N°52), Harry Kampiane, "Olga Kisseleva", Paris, France, September-October 2007(pdf) /french/
Bereg Moscow, Russia, December 2007, Olga Kisseleva (pdf) /russian /