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Les histoires d'origine

The answer may seem confusing at first sight : an artistic creation, an association of artists, a development tool for art, a symbol ? It is at once all these things.

In the beginning, no strategy (the La Pluie d’Oiseaux performance/exhibition).

Perhaps a rash, subconscious gamble : to open up possibilities and make each meeting, each encounter, a space for opportunity and artistic exchange. The chance to discover, in others or in ourselves, something unsuspected and unexpected. Exchanges that would be the result of subtle impregnations (the laboratory, or the artists’ residences).

There is something amoral about “La Pluie d’Oiseaux”. It is a succession or a simultaneity of love stories, of embraces and fusions, spontaneous in its thirst to discover and share those discoveries, to give birth to new expression and new proposals, but refusing stereotypes and prejudice and maintaining high standards of quality

(Colour and Word, Journals of “La Pluie d’Oiseaux”…).

From this loving disorder emerges an overflow of generosity, shaking up conventions and classifications. Labels are ripped away. (as the children’s workshops reveal so strikingly). All this generates an out-of-frame proposal for how art can be when reality is enriched with new meanings and new possibilities.

Let’s be clear : this fine naivety is not innocent …(La Pluie d’Oiseaux Donation) From Kurdistan to Saint André, from China to Roubaix, from Poland to Lille, through chance encounters, the birds leave their feathers, in all forms and in every colour, of all species and every horizon. These feathers, the artists carry as quills to trace the story of experience, of life, reinterpreting it through representation or hinting at new worlds to come (children’s drawings).

These artists are not just in front of you, but among you, with you , rubbing your eyes and teasing your mind. Look at them. Look at yourself. A painter dancing the words of a storyteller singing the colours of a musician painting the desires of an audience recognising its story in the story running through it. (Conturlures, Innana)

La Pluie d'Oiseaux: c'est :

.....un poème qui donne naissance à

..........une exposition qui donne naissance à

................une association qui ...