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On the occasion of the 1^st Contemporaine de Nîmes, the CACN – Contemporary Art Center of Nîmes invites Figure Figure to design an exhibition within the art center. 

Figure Figure is a digital magazine founded in 2017, which has brought together some sixty interviews with emerging artists from the French and British art scenes since its first publication. These interviews are the result of personal exchanges between critics and artists. They provide an opportunity for confidence and discussions about life trajectories where intimacy, politics and art intertwine. 

Figure Figure‘s exhibition at the CACN functions as a dialogue between the textual material of the interviews and the artists’ works. It showcases the relationship between the artist and the critic, between the work and its discourse. It also brings together two territories where cultural exchanges are taking place. 

Each of the eight rooms in the art center presents works by artists from these two scenes, based on common questions and sensitivities, addressing recurring and significant subjects for the new generation, and thereby reflecting Figure Figure‘s editorial adventure over the past seven years.

With: Alex Margo Arden, Elsa Brès, Débora Delmar, Kenny Dunkan, Tyler Eash, Eva Gold, Georgina Hill, Joey Holder, Youri Johnson, Tarek Lakhrissi, Margot Pietri, Harilay Rabenjamina, Anaïs Tohé-Commaret, Jenkin van Zyl

Curators: Noam Alon, Indira Beraud, Mathilde Cassan