Trampoline is pleased to support the solo exhibition of the artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, Mexico.
“In her first monographic exhibition in Mexico, Lili Reynaud-Dewar presents thirteen video works adapted to this venue. Eight of these were produced in 2023 and consolidate her interest in the construction of masculinity. They are joined by five others recorded in the offices and exhibition spaces of the LAA during the installation of her exhibition.
The anchor of the project are the portraits of various types of masculinity, where the artist reveals the systematic methodology of interviews she has been conducting for some years now with her close circle of friends, family and students, a work she considers both artistic and documentary. Likewise, the hotel rooms where the participants are interviewed form an archive of Paris in the 2020s, an aspect that interests Reynaud-Dewar, who sees art as an anthropological exercise for future generations. The videos also evoke recurring themes in her work, such as the function of the artist, an activity with blurred contours that is both privileged and precarious, lying between the exposure of private life and the increased subjectivity of public life. She highlights the complicated relationship between gender, class and race that unfolds as part of exercising dissidence, in this case, sexual dissidence and activism.
The sequence of portraits is interwoven with five videos created during the mounting of this exhibition. In them Reynaud-Dewar dances naked and alone in the exhibition spaces and offices of LAA, radically confronting the otherness of the museum’s colonial building as well as the works of other artists sharing the space. In contrast to these historical echoes, Reynaud-Dewar’s mobile but silent body asserts the artist’s joyful solitude and vulnerability as a strategy of resistance to counter the intense flux of the world.”
Exhibition text by Dorothée Dupuis, curator
