Art Metropole

#15952

NOZ

Artist

Jeanne Lebrun

Date

2023

Publisher

Idoine Édition

Format

Monographs

ISBN

9782491604080

Size

13 × 19.5 × 1 cm

Length

148 pp

Genre

Contemporary Art, Arts Writing, Criticism, Essays, Economics

Jeanne Lebrun writes like she speaks, and speaks like she thinks. Her words are fast, powerful, critical and lively. Driven by curiosity and rage, she thinks about the world as she inhabits it. She’s always working, and has developed a practice where life and art are truly enmeshed. Family, friends and encounters enable her to think and invent practices both on her own and with others. A few years at art school confirmed for Jeanne what she wasn’t up for her. With neither naivety nor cynicism, she has carved out a place between indulgence and intransigence, founded on an ethic often shaped by adversity and continually reaffirmed.

The essay “Noz” is written in a style that is spontaneous and direct, where she connects her personal experiences to major contemporary issues – the place of money and its representations, and the instrumentalisation of emotions in our current hegemonic economic and political system. This text is about how to cheat and self-organise, calling for joyful and collective resistance, for piracy and finding the cracks where alternatives and other ways of living are possible.