CapcMusée's 'la Vie, au fond, se rit du vrai' Exhibition and Frac Aquitaine Publication

The exhibition 'la Vie, au fond, se rit du vrai' at CapcMusée d'art contemporain in Bordeaux, France, from May 23 to September 8, 2002, curated by Jany Lauga and Hervé Legros, features around one hundred works from the Frac-Collection Aquitaine. The show avoids a single theme or argument, instead adopting a strategy of 'unpacking and displaying' to create a dynamic, non-hierarchical presentation. Key works include Amal Saade's 'Beit El Borj' (1998-2000), Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux's 'Culture Cult' (1996-2000), Made in Eric's 'Studio modulable' (1999), Joël Hubaut's 'Clom trok blanc' (1999), and Robert Filliou's videos 'From Political to Poetical Economy' (1977 and 1979). These act as satellites around which other works orbit, producing accidental encounters and oblique connections, such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's analyst cabinet and Pierre Molinier's photographs, Hervé Coqueret's plexiglass Ford Mustang, Richard Fauguet's reconstructed objects, Jeff Koons' household appliances, Nathalie Talec's frozen words, Tatiana Trouvé's ghosts, Frédéric Duprat's Eskimo, and Présence Panchounette's niche. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication of a book by Frac-Collection Aquitaine, functioning as both a dictionary and an image book, surveying 20 years of acquisitions in contemporary art.