Liliane Viala is an artist who questions the relationship between the notions of creation and production beyond art by conceiving interactions between various fields of activity. By creating disturbances using plastic tools, her actions developed according to the context of the business reveal dominant modes of sociability and unexpected situations.
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- “What margin of autonomy does an artist outside the field of art have? Doesn’t the freedom to invent his own interaction with the world make him even more vulnerable to multiple forms of predation?”
- “Art is in quotation marks “artistic”, as long as it is part of the already written economic field of the art market. This question then no longer arises in the same way when art goes beyond this framework.”
- “I question the notion of creation in contexts of life, outside the framework of the exhibition. It proposes participatory devices that are built around the space of the spoken word – meetings, invitations, appointments, discussions, etc. – and that are based on the idea of the creative process. It induces situations and actions whose form varies according to the context.”
- “I take hold of elements of reality in order to interact with it, on the fringes of the territories and systems provided for by the cultural institution.”
- “Is it not in its relationship to the economy that art can innovate new forms, new practices?”