PLEINS FEUX

with students from High school Alphonse Daudet specializing in visual arts

Practical infos

Project presented during the Contemporaine de Nîmes, from April 5 to June 23, 2024.
Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 6:30pm. Closed on May 1^st.
Opening: Friday, April 5, 6pm to 10pm.
Access on presentation of the Pass Contemporaine de Nîmes or admission to the Musée des Cultures taurines H. & C. Viallat.
The museum’s permanent collections will be open to the public from mid-May 2024.

MUSÉE DES CULTURES TAURINES CLAUDE & HENRIETTE VIALLAT
6 rue Alexandre Ducros, 30900 Nîmes

How to get there?

Film shooting of Aïda Bruyère at the Arena of Nîmes, February 2024.

The Musée des Cultures Taurines H. & C. Viallat is hosting an immersive video installation by artist Aïda Bruyère. Entitled “Make Up Destroyerz III”, it has been co-created with secondary and high school students from Seine-Saint-Denis and Nîmes. After a planetary cataclysm, a group of teenagers receive a message from the past urging them to build a new society without repeating the same mistakes, particularly regarding patriarchy and gender inequality. However, this quest is not without its challenges: it unleashes passions and leads to conflict between the survivors… This collaborative post-apocalyptic anticipation story celebrates the attributes of femininity and the visual culture of teenagers, and blends references to bullfighting culture, hooliganism and gladiators’ shows – all through a feminist prism. The installation is introduced by a collection of iconic works by American artist Judy Chicago, a pioneer of feminist art. It retraces several of her landmark performances, in which pyrotechnic effects and smoke become the attributes of powerful women.

Judy Chicago, On Fire (1969-2012). Collection 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz (France).

Aïda Bruyère & Judy Chicago, « Pleins Feux ».

The artists

Aïda Bruyère

Born in Dakar in 1995, Aïda Bruyère is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. After graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020, she has shown her work in solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and Galerie PACT, as well as in various co (...)

Judy Chicago

Born Judy Cohen in 1939 in Chicago, Judy Chicago is a pioneer of the feminist art movement in the United States. She developed the first feminist art programme at the University of California in 1970 and co-founded the Feminist Studio Workshop in 197 (...)

The location

Musée des Cultures Taurines Henriette & Claude Viallat

Opened in 2022 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Feria de Nîmes, the Musée des Cultures Taurines H. & C. Viallat houses nearly 30,000 objects divided into four sections: the bullfighting collections assembled since the 1920s, the Henriett (...)

Documentation

Partners

Project presented with the support of:
Center Culturel des Lilas, Artagon

With the collaboration of:
Musée des Cultures Taurines Henriette et Claude Viallat, Arena of Nîmes, High school Alphonse Daudet, Garde-Chasse / Les Lilas Theater.

And with the loan of works by Judy Chicago from:
49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine