"Many French nonprofit art institutions that have long relied on public funding are seeing their budgets cut at the hands of the right. This has pushed venues to develop increasingly international programs as a pragmatic way to benefit from foreign funding, in contrast to the nationalist agenda driving these cuts."
"Verticality is a central motif in Ingarden's work, characterizing both her columnar structures and the hierarchies of power that she fragments and subverts. Composed of panes salvaged from an office building in Kyiv before the war, they bear scar-like fissures, sometimes encircled by the artist as a surgeon might trace incision paths."
"These corporate-coded structures reflect on the neoliberal push for efficiency and its shortcomings. Inside each pane, videos on flatscreens feature characters dancing in a chaotic trance."
Between March 16 and March 21, visits to Marseille, Avignon, Sète, and Montpellier revealed a shift in cultural programming due to budget cuts from right-wing policies. French nonprofit art institutions are increasingly developing international programs to secure foreign funding. Current exhibitions reflect themes of voyeurism, power, and resistance against the political backdrop. Agata Ingarden's work at Triangle-Astérides and Collection Lambert critiques modern architecture and power hierarchies, using salvaged materials to symbolize the failures of neoliberal efficiency.
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