Nuit Blanche 2024: Marathon of embroidery and reflections on bodies in motion at La Galerie du 19M

Nuit Blanche is back this Saturday, June 1! For the occasion, Galerie du 19M is organizing a number of events focusing on arts and crafts, fashion and sport.

Nuit Blanche, Paris's annual art event, returns on Saturday, June 1, 2024. The event transforms the city into a gigantic art gallery, with different venues mobilized to make Art accessible to all. Parisians and visitors alike can discover a multitude of art installations, performances and cultural trails spread across different districts.

The Galerie du 19M , located in north-east Paris, is a cultural and artistic space dedicated to the promotion of arts and crafts, mainly those related to fashion and haute couture. Initiated by the Chanel group and created in 2021, the Galerie du 19M is part of a complex called the 19M, designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti .

Its name refers not only to the 19th arrondissement of Paris, but also to the 19 trades represented there. Numerous temporary exhibitions have been organized at the Galerie since its inauguration, as well as workshops, meetings and screenings. In addition to its exhibitions, the Galerie du 19M aims to promote the arts and fashion professions, some of which are little-known to the public, such as embroidery, featherwork, floral decorating, millinery and many others.

This year, Nuit Blanche 2024 is taking over the venue, with an exciting program of events!

The Nuit Blanche 2024 program at La Galerie du 19M :

Embroidery Marathon
2pm - 11pm

Attached to amateur practice since its opening, laGalerie du 19M orchestrates a major embroidery marathon for the Nuit Blanche public. Passionate embroiderers and embroiderers from Maison Lesage will join forces to create a monumental work specially commissioned from artist Aristide Barraud. This exceptional evening is part of Maison Lesage's centenary year.
The participatory work will then travel to Venice, on the occasion of Homo Faber, where the Venetian public will be able to complete it.

Le relais des pensées
8pm - 11:30pm

To coincide with Nuit Blanche 2024, la Galerie du 19M offers a series of talks by thinkers, artists, athletes and professional creators, who will compare endurance in the creative field. Personalities from all horizons will take turns to discuss the notion of performance and endurance in all fields of creation. Do the delicacy of artistic craftsmanship and the extreme effort of top-level sportsmen and women clash? How is creation conceived in the world of sport? What about movement in the workshop? Between know-how and savoir-être, these discussions will be the occasion for encounters between eclectic universes that seem at first sight to be in contradiction.
The discussions, moderated by SébastienThème, will be interspersed with performances by Aurore Le duc and Juliette Baigné.

(L)' Être Charrette
19h - 23h30

To be a charrette: to be late, in a hurry, usually in the course of one's work. It's an experience we've all had, but one that's sublimated in a performance by Aurore Le Duc.

For Nuit Blanche 2024, Aurore Le Duc has created an original performance to punctuate and encourage the gestures of participants in the Marathon de la broderie, with spontaneous interventions featuring stories from the charrette.

Aurore Le duc was born, raised and studied in Cergy-Pontoise, a new town on the outskirts of Paris renowned for its postmodern architecture, top schools, ghost amusement park and popular restaurants. Her practice, mainly performative, is accompanied by sculptural and textile pieces that blend scholarly and popular culture with humor and intelligence.

Calligraphy movements
22h50 - 23h10

Specially conceived for "Les Marathons du 19M", Juliette Baigné's performance features Sufi dancer Nour Joseph Gebrael and Electro's Wild compagnie, captured live by the artist in the form of Calligraphies of movement.

At first glance, Sufi and Electro dance appear to be opposites: one stemming from a millennia-old spiritual tradition, fluid and circular; the other born in the Parisian clubs of the 2000s, jarring and unstructured. Yet they meet in their relationship to repetition, leading to a form of trance, guided by a primitive pulse that carries the dancers away and activates those watching. By giving us an instinctive and secret desire to join them, they have the power to connect us. It is both this common root and the expression of these singular vitalities that the Calligraphies de mouvements device sets out to capture.

Visual artist and dancer Juliette Baigné lives and works in Paris. Her work focuses on movement as a vector of balance and health. Close to Taoist thought and inspired by the Chinese medicine she practices, she conducts research into different types of movement: which maintain vitality? Which ones diminish it? How do they improve or weaken the state of health of a body or situation? She approaches the idea of health as the ability of a body to enjoy its freedom of movement, without being reduced by ailments limiting its amplitude.

Nuit Blanche 2024: Marathon of embroidery and reflections on bodies in motion at La Galerie du 19M

The Nuit Blanche 2024 program at La Galerie du 19M :

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