Trends and signs that announce the arrival of a new batch of artists who wish to knock on the doors of recognition and affirmation can also be captured through a certain ritual practiced by art schools that now provide the bulk of the emerging scene.

In 2012 I was president of the jury of the National Superior Diploma of Plastic Expression, the well-known DNSEP, June session of the SUPERIOR SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS OF MONTPELLIER AGGLOMERATION (ESBAMA). Hence the idea of taking advantage of this first-class position in order to pursue a curatorial project and to concoct an exhibition with the lucky graduates and the works they had developed in order to pass the test.

We have therefore aggregated the ingredients, drawn lines of force, made the stories appear and put in place a device to make exist a group exhibition and even thematic. The exercise is part of a category marked by the spirit after modern ie choices where hierarchies have been diminished or even annihilated and from which emerges a process which consists in distilling and condensing elements, a priori disparate in order to privilege other parameters of the speech.

Point de Mire takes over the motive of one of the works on display and proposes to bring the center of interest to this new generation formed by the Montpellier School of Art. We will know what motivates them, what their aims are exported to, how they treat their favorite mediums and what kind of words they want to make heard and understood. It will also be a question of passions and obsessions, of resignation and indignation, of know-how and to make known.

And the surprise promised for this event is the invitation made to Adel Abdessemed to play the pivot of this equipment, to position it as a possible reference, as a virtual tutor and especially as the model of a national of an imaginary country that is the planet of contemporary art. Adel Abdessemed is one of the most emblematic artists on the international scene of this early 21st century. His work focuses on the meaning of events mediated through philosophical and aesthetic perspectives, which he captures through a variety of media. We are thus witnessing metaphysical outbreaks and the constant desire to convert objects, texts and actions into metaphors with a high quotient.

The exhibition is accompanied by an electronic publication on iTunes U that will be complemented by audio and video content and other resources.

Ami Barak

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