From February 27 to March 14 the oak salon of the French Institute will host an exhibition by Evgeny Granilshchikov, bringing together works from both the Russian and French periods of his practice including video art, drawing and objects. The project is dedicated to the experience of love and the attempt to understand it through the documentation of everyday life.
The concept of "Drama" is built around a dialogue between Granilshchikov’s artistic practice and Roland Barthes’ 1977 philosophical work “Fragments of a lover's speech”. Barthes examines love as a specific structure of speech and raises issue about the language of the lover and how lived experience becomes visible through words. Love appears as an image — through a gaze that captures the fragility of the moment and its inevitable disappearance in Granilshchikov’s works.
The central work of the project is “THE SAME DRAMA” a new version of the film
"DRAMA" created in 2019. Moscow of the 2010s is revisited and reinterpreted by Granilshchikov in 2025 in Clermont-Ferrand. This retrospective perspective allows the artist to reframe events from the late 2010s and their key protagonists. Repeating the ritual phrase “everything is fine, everything that happened is essentially…” with the film’s song text Granilshchikov dissolves the boundaries of time creating a space for continuous experience.
The project “Drama” consists of multiple fragments in which encounters between incompatible times, voices and modes of perception become possible. Everyday documentation enters into dialogue with a lyrical interpretation of reality while cinema, drawing and readymade objects form a unified field for reflection and perception.
The exhibition is curated by Anna Mayskaya, researcher at Anna Nova Gallery.
Admission is free. Opening hours are available on the website.
