Récits alternatifs, an exhibition of the work of Jayce Salloum, is being presented at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris (5 rue de Constantine) from November 24, 2011 to March 16, 2012.

Récits alternatifs presents the visual and aural crackling that animates the work of Salloum and does not lead the viewer to a specific place but keeps him or her in a less comfortable area of exchanges back and forth that undermine the fixity of tightly circumscribed positions and perceptions. Personal and public archives still constitute the material of an art that is not afraid of entering into the complexity of the contexts of pressing political and human issues, from where beauty manages to emerge alongside sorrows and ruins. Salloum’s art leads the viewer to ask him- or herself disturbing questions about the various forms of nationalism, transnationality, integration, colonization, migrations, beliefs and domestic conflicts that haunt the individual and define whether or not he or she belongs to a group, history, nation-state or ideology. These questions are not asked but emerge in the particular form of composition and montage that characterizes the work of Salloum, filled with words and images and elaborated using a point of view in constant motion.

Of Lebanese origin, Jayce Salloum lives Vancouver. His work has been presented in numerous local, national and international exhibitions, and notably at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the 15th Biennale of Sydney. His videos have been projected at international festivals around the world, including the Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands; Diagonale, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Pressure Points, Sydney Arab Film Festival, Australia; Transat Vidéo, Caen, France; Mostra Curta Cinema –- Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazi; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands; Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. The Canadian Cultural Centre is proud to present the first major solo exhibition by the artist in France.

The exhibition opening will be held on November 23 at 6:00 p.m.

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