PAPER LANE
Paper Lane represents an act of resistance in the face of the digital revolution, the profusion of overabundance, high-speed and high-tech life, that destroy the silence necessary for meditation, introspection and reflection. This act is based on the observation of the need for a radical deceleration and is inspired by the book Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality by the German sociologist and philosopher Hartmut Rosa.
Paper Lane is also inspired by the action used by Sophie Whettnall in her work Longueur d'ondes (Wavelength) and her Plaster Landscapes series, both made of paper. It is presented as an intervention in which a single, dilated, gesture is deployed in a constant movement, the performance of which draws the space and generates the time of the action.
production and distribution Niels Production (Brussels)
coproduction Niels Production, in collaboration with Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
with the support by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique — Service de la danse and Grand Studiolength 60 minutes
durational performance by and with Olga de Soto
after a gesture by Sophie Whettnall
plastic element Olga de Sotoproduction and administration manager Julia Alix
Premièred on May 25 2019 at Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, in the frame of Brussels Art Summit, in partnership with BOZAR and WIELS
KANAL - Centre Pompidou, Brussels (tests)
© Lisa Gunstone
Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels Art Summit, Brussels
In the frame of the exhibition by Sophie Whettnall and Etel Adnan La banquise, la forêt et les étoiles
© Eric Danhier
KANAL - Centre Pompidou, Brussels
In the frame of the exhibition by John Armleder It Never Ends
© Lorraine Wauters © Fondation/Stichting KANAL
PAPER LANE
Festival Trouble #12 / It’s About Time, Brussels (2023)
25 MAY 2019, Centrale for Contemporary Art, exhibition by Sophie Whettnall and Etel Adnan La banquise, la forêt et les étoiles, Brussels Art Summit, Brussels (BE) — PREMIERE
2020
Habiter l’équivoque, Festival Les traversées du Marais, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
Kanal – Centre Pompidou, exhibition by John Armleder It Never Ends, Brussels (BE)2023
Joan Miró Foundation, permanent collection, in the frame of Espejismo desplazado, Constellation Olga de Soto, Barcelone (ES)
Festival Trouble #12 / It's about time, Studio Thor, Brussels (BE)
2024
Almost Summer / Feminist Futures Festival, Buda, Kortrijk (BE)
Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid (ES), Edificio Sabatini: Exhibition by Antoni Tàpies. La práctica del arte, Espace 208.03: Pintura y Anarquismo & Espace 102: Richard Serra, Equal-Paralel: Guernica-Bengasi