<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">La Biennale de Momon</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class="">
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Participating artists:</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">
Sarah Boulton (GB),</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Marc Buchy (FR/BE),</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Joan Heemskerk (NL), <br class="">
Frans van Lent (NL),</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Susana Mendes Silva (PT),</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Josh Schwebel (DE/CA), <br class="">
Lisa Skuret (US/GB),</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Elia Torrecilla (ES)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Martine Viale (CA/FR).<br class="">
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Website: Maya Rettelbach (DE)<br class="">
video: Steef van Lent (NL)<br class="">
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</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">La Biennale de Momon </b>originated from the village of Maumont in the southwest of France. Maumont, similar to many old villages, has changed significantly over the past few decades. While the site has retained the same physical structure, very little has remained of the original atmosphere: Residents disappeared and strangers took over the vacancies. Agriculture became gardening, physical labor became relaxation.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">The contrast between the material continuity and the change in use and atmosphere was a reason to initiate this project. The old (occitan) name of the village, Momon, is not in use anymore. It is the name of a memory. The village is two things at the same time: the immutable and the ephemeral, the stones and the living.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">La Biennale de Momon is composed by nine artists: Sarah Boulton, Marc Buchy, Joan Heemskerk, Frans van Lent, Susana Mendes Silva, Josh Schwebel, Lisa Skuret, Elia Torrecilla and Martine Viale. What these artists have in common is a focus on the processes of change rather than on its material deposits.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">The original plan was for the artists to each reside and work in Maumont for a time, absorbing the atmosphere, history, and stories. We agreed that after our residencies we would leave the village without a trace and that the project would be presented online only.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">The pandemic has radically changed the project. Most participants only know the village from photos and video. The physical reality that had triggered the project, now plays a different role. The pandemic also changed the project conceptually, as it pushed us even more from the physical towards the virtual. Not so much experiencing this as a limitation, we accepted this as a natural event which inevitably influences our choices.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Looking at what was still there, we imagined how this could lead us to something beautiful. We created a new colony in the virtual world, not based on the village of Maumont, but based on an imaginary Momon.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">
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The domain <a href="http://momon.fr" class="">momon.fr</a> has became our new location, a new base, the new original.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">Designer Maya Rettelbach has gathered the artists’ work together on neutral terrain, in a place outside the village, in a virtual garden.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">La Biennale de Momon is intiated and organised by Frans van Lent. It is the first in a series of two-year projects for the presentation of concept oriented arts.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">The project is supported by the municipality of the city of Dordrecht, the Netherlands.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Information:<br class="">
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Please visit the website <a href="http://momon.fr" class="">momon.fr</a> before you visit our Public Event on Saturday 13 February at Zoom. All artists will be available at Zoom and will be able to talk and to respond to your questions. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">You can see the website on a computer but the nicest way to visit La Biennale de Momon is on your mobile phone<br class="">
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<b class="">Free Public Event:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class="">on Saturday 13 February, 2021 at 18h:00 GMT/ 19h UTC (+1)<br class="">
Zoom meeting:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85943152439?pwd=Mjk4VFRRK0grK0hkMVEwMEJHMDY2QT09" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85943152439?pwd=Mjk4VFRRK0grK0hkMVEwMEJHMDY2QT09</a></span><br class="">
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Organisation and contact: <br class="">
Frans van Lent <br class="">
+316 285 999 38<br class="">
<a href="mailto:mail@labiennaledemomon.org" class="">mail@labiennaledemomon.org</a>.<br class="">
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