Guillaume Désanges Curates ENSBA Decade at Beaux-Arts de Paris

Curator Guillaume Désanges unveiled "2001-2011: Soudain déjà" at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from October 21, 2011, until January 8, 2012, coinciding with the exit of director Henry-Claude Cousseau. The exhibition featured twenty-nine emerging artists connected to significant global events from the specified decade, illustrated through a timeline of front pages from Le Monde, Courrier International, and Paris Match. It commenced with Laurent Grasso's "Projection" (2005), which depicted a smoke cloud above a city alongside Le Monde's headline from September 13, 2001. The first section highlighted personal works by Emilie Pitoiset, Isabelle Cornaro, Thu Van Tran, Natalia Villanueva, and Jean-Baptiste Akim Calistru, while the latter segment, beginning with Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 win, focused on documentary styles and concluded with a reference to the Arab Spring.