Conversation Pieces
Conversation Pieces - a Suspended Spaces Proposal
Exhibition from November 6 to December 20, 2013
On the invitation of Denis Briand and Marion Hohlfeldt
Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
Basma Alsharif (Palestine), Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon),
François Bellenger (France), Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (Palestine),
Maïder Fortuné (France), Hatem Imam (Lebanon), Lamia Joreige (Lebanon),
Valérie Jouve (France), Ghassan Maasri (Lebanon), Mira Sanders (Belgium)
« Conversation piece is a term for an informal group portrait, especially those painted in Britain in the 18th century, beginning in the 1720s. They are distinguished by their portrayal of the group apparently engaged in genteel conversation or some activity, very often outdoors. Typically the group will be members of a family, but friends may be included, and some groups are of friends, members of a society or hunt, or some other grouping. (…) The phrase "conversation piece" later acquired a different meaning. It came to refer to objects that were perceived to be interesting enough to spark conversation about them. They provide a stimulus for prop-based conversation openers. The original conversation pieces sometimes depicted a group united in conversation about an object, which would typically be an item linked to science or scholarship. » (wikipedia)
Tripoli, International Fair, April 2013
© Suspended spaces
Photo credits
William Hogarth, A Midnight Modern Conversation., 1733 © the British Museum
At Mansion, Beirut, april 2013
© Suspended spaces
Practical informations
Address :
Galerie Art & Essai, Université Rennes 2,
campus Villejean, place du Recteur Henri Le Moal, 35000 Rennes, France
Metro: Villejean-Université
Phone: 00 33 (0) 2 99 14 11 42
Opening times
Tuesday- friday, 13.00-18.00
Closed on week-ends.
Free entrance.
Vernissage : november 6, 2013 at 18.30.
Opening (with the artists and the final form of the exhibition): december 12, 2013, 18:30.