Vincent Normand (born France, 1985) is a writer and curator based in Paris and Lausanne. Co-editor of the magazine Criticism, his texts are published in various collective publications, and he contributes to magazines such as Kaleidoscope, May or Frog. He is actually initiating Permanent Exhibition, Temporary Collections, a theoretical itinerant structure that inaugurates its program with his collaboration with Etienne Chambaud on the occasion of The Sirens' Stage.
The David Roberts Art Foundation in London, Kadist Art Foundation in Paris and Nomas Foundation in Rome are pleased to present The Sirens' Stage/Le Stade des Sirènes/Lo stato delle sirene, a fragmented exhibition by Etienne Chambaud in the framework of Vincent Normand's project Permanent Exhibition, Temporary Collections. The three translations of the exhibition, interpreted in a different language almost simultaneously at each foundation, are based on mechanisms of writing and transcription. Translation should be considered both the medium and the shared language of the whole project.
The project takes its title from the mythological sirens' song, which invents itself in the ear of its addressee. Here The Sirens' Stage/Le Stade des Sirènes/Lo stato delle sirene is conceived as a group of "written o...