Belleville Art Walk: Spring 2007 Paris Scene

A spring 2007 art walk through Belleville, Paris, reveals a vibrant contemporary art scene. The tour begins at Le Plateau, where the exhibition "Société Anonyme" (curated by Thomas Boutoux, Nataša Petrešin, and François Piron) presents ten artists or collectives exploring art production processes. Nearby, castillo/corrales opens as a laboratory space by six artists and writers. Cosmic Galerie shows "Space Oddity," a pop-toned group exhibition referencing David Bowie and Stanley Kubrick, featuring Sébastien Vonier's stair rail without steps. At Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Ulrich Polster's "Zaum-Material" deconstructs post-Wall German evolution through layered video. La Vitrine presents Marie Reinert's archaeological fiction of an emptied office, with black-and-white surveillance-style images and a light-table site plan. At squat La Générale, soon to relocate to Manufacture de Sèvres, Aïda Kebadian's gouaches evoke Chagall, while the collective &nbsp presents the seventh episode of "Apocalypse Now" season, "The Embassy," exploring programming with works by Bertran Berranger, Sarah Fauguet, David Cousinard, and Cécile Paris. The opening coincided with the eve of the French presidential election runoff, featuring Virginie Yassef's video "Les Guetteurs" showing protesters perched on bus shelters and lampposts.