Since March 2021 17 researchers and visual artists whose research subject is the relationship between the archive and the fictive have been collaborating in a group initiated by visual artist Claire Ducène. The project, entitled "Fictive Archive Investigations", is hybrid and collaborative, bringing together a diversity of practices, ages and backgrounds.
Members : Philippe Beck (BE), Elise Billiard Pisani (FR) & Margerita Pulè (MT), Giordano Bruno do Nascimento (DE & BR), Balthazar Bumberg (FR), Juan Cárdenas (CO), Alexis Choplain & Noëlie Plé (BE), Céline Cuvelier (BE), Claire Ducène (BE), Patrick Gaïaudo (FR), Cecilia Hurtado (MEX), Irene Loureiro, (PT), Stéphanie Roland (BE), Agata Skupniewicz (PL), Sam Vanoverschelde (BE), Julian Walker (UK).
General description of the exhibition –
The group has been meeting every month to present and share their practices.In 2022, they began a remote collaboration working towards the exhibition « Fictive Archive Investigations: Memories Gone Wild », a presentation of artworks and considerations on the fictive in the archive, structured as chapters « Literature & literary imagination », « Time », « Botanic & Nature », « Historicalarchives », « Accumulation & physical presence of the document » and « Variations », but also the presentation of collective installations created with new technologies and communication’s plateforms.