Xavier Le Roy’s exhibition Temporary Title

Temporary Title (2015) is an exhibition where visitors enter and leave at will. This situation is made possible by performers who form and dissolve groups or assemblies, creating an ever-evolving landscape. The performers’ actions and presences, sometimes engaging in conversation with the public, oscillate between recognisable and unrecognisable appearances displaying sculptural, animal, vegetal, or mechanical features.

Building upon materials developed for low pieces, this work questions the boundaries between human and inhuman; object and subject; and transformation, transition, and modification. At first sight, it may appear as something external to contemplate, but the length of the visit renders it a landscape in which we find ourselves—a situation for us to experience, a space where our perception might outpace than our actions, or where time perhaps can wait.

Conception: Xavier Le Roy
Artistic collaboration: Scarlet Yu

Alternatingly featuring: Alexandre Achour, Jorge Alencar, Salka Ardal Rosengren, Sherwood Chen, Christine De Smedt, Ben Evans, Luis Miguel Felix, Zeina Hanna, Alice Heyward, Georgia Bettens, Xavier Le Roy, Neto Machado, Sabine Macher, João Dos Santos Martins, Julia Rodriguez, Scarlet Yu

Production: Le Kwatt // Coprodução / Coproduction: Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney; Carriageworks, Sydney; MAC/CCB, Lisbon

Special thanks to Biennale di Venezia – College de Danza 2015

Exhibition first commissioned and presented from 19 to 22 November 2015 at Carriageworks as the 31st Kaldor Public Art Project, Sydney

NOTICE
Xavier Le Roy’s performance Temporary Title, running from 1 pm to 7 pm, features full nudity by 15 performers. 

If you plan to attend, we recommend that minors be accompanied by their legal guardians for the duration of the performance.