G&K

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Our duo G&K (Stéphane Guiran and Katarzyna Kot) was born at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, as part of the 2022 art season. From this meeting emerged the desire to embark on a path of common creation, by meditating with the Earth and offering another look at the challenges we face with climate change. We see tomorrow as a new chapter that opens, offering the possibility of imagining other ways of being in the world. The works, in resonance with Glenn Albrecht's concept of the symbiocene, are born from listening to the memory and fragility of the Great Living of our planet.

KATARZYNA KOT

Katarzyna Kot's creations are imbued with a deep connection with the Earth. His Mandalas or his Wheels of Existence are so many meditations made with the living, in a process of connection with a Whole which invites us to find our center. Born in Poland and based in Luxembourg for more than twenty years, she grew up maintaining a very intimate link with the forest, which inspires and deeply inhabits her creations. Her installations woven from plants picked in the woods open a space between her approach as a sculptor and her broader vision of life.

STÉPHANE GUIRAN

Stéphane Guiran's dreamlike installations bring the public into a sensitive universe where stones, crystals and all materials from nature come to life. They participate with the audience in a choreography that arouses deep emotions. His creations are at the same time plastic, audiovisual, sound, and literary. They are constructed like narratives, offering an intimate journey that invites a reconnection with oneself, in particular through the place given to dreams and poetry.

In collaboration with Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris.

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Repair our dreams, relearn how to dream tomorrow

We are witnessing the birth of a new era. All over the Earth, generations are taking action to create a more conscious world, one that respects the living.

Scientists and activists play an essential role in bringing this awareness to fruition. Today, at a time when the notion of climate change has become a concrete reality for many, a new step is necessary: helping to dream of tomorrow. Offer images and stories that show how to find your place in the path that opens up, and thus overcome the wounds created by the transformation that is going through us.

We can all, at our own level, around us, become actors in a humanity that repairs itself. Everyone, through their connection with the world, can put themselves at the service of this repair. Artists have a role to play in this new stage.

All creators, through their visions, place possibilities in the collective imagination, and thus nourish the projects and aspirations of each person.

Our duo offers a series of creations around the Great Living. They are made of poetic gestures illustrating another way of being in the world, made of listening and attention, of respect for others: nature is no longer considered as an object to be discovered or exploited, but as a subject capable of acting and sharing our destiny. By exploring what Achille Mbembe calls an “animist metaphysics”, we are part of a new paradigm that speaks to everyone in their privacy, inviting us to adapt our behavior to move forward on the path to a more conscious and responsible “Earthly Community”.

Each year a different site will be chosen among the Great Living Things of the Earth weakened by the choices of Men. Each creation will be built around this place, with an in situ performance which will be filmed, and a series of works which will be inspired by the places.

Through this poetic resistance, these creations are an invitation to reconciliation with the world that lives within us. An invitation to reconnect with who we are. To relearn how to dream tomorrow.
More info on the Great Livings
Works
Exhibition Views
Video

Trailer for the documentary "La nuit est une page blanche" (The night is a blank page), a meditative performance by artists Stéphane Guiran and Katarzyna Kot in Iceland, in December 2022 on the Vatnajökull glacier. © G&K
Episode 1. "Origines" of the documentary "La nuit est une page blanche" (The night is a blank page), a meditative performance by artists Stéphane Guiran and Katarzyna Kot in Iceland, in December 2022 on the Vatnajökull glacier. TV5Monde © G&K
Episode 2. "Vatnajökull" of the documentary "La nuit est une page blanche" (The night is a blank page), a meditative performance by artists Stéphane Guiran and Katarzyna Kot in Iceland, in December 2022 on the Vatnajökull glacier. TV5Monde © G&K Episode 3. "Vivants" of the documentary "La nuit est une page blanche" (The night is a blank page), a meditative performance by artists Stéphane Guiran and Katarzyna Kot in Iceland, in December 2022 on the Vatnajökull glacier. TV5Monde © G&K
Publications
- La nuit est une page blanche
  Cyril Dion, G&K (Stéphane Guiran et Katarzyna Kot), 2023 Read more
- La nuit est une page blanche - Carnet de création
  G&K (Stéphane Guiran et Katarzyna Kot), 2023 Read more