100 Possible Protests

This exhibition proposed by the students of the Master 2 Métiers de l'art of the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, in partnership with the Abattoirs and the CIAM, is part of the anniversary program of the 40th anniversary of the CIAM and the 50th anniversary of May 68.

The protest in the singular does not exist. There is not one but many challenges. We contest what we think is contestable. Everything can be. The contestations are innumerable, protean, plural. They promise the possible. They are vital. Armed conflicts, capitalist societies, migratory issues, global warming, inequalities, discriminations, corruption, censorship: why should we focus on one cause rather than another, embrace one, abandon another?

100 POSSIBLE PROTESTS. WITHOUT POSSIBLE CONTESTATION, artists contest, they take the freedom of action. To provoke. To jostle. To agitate. To denounce. To disrupt. Make certainties waver. To invent new languages.
The works gathered manifest multiple indignities. 19 students, 19 curators and as many personal convictions for a single project: we are each our revolts and our ideals. This proposal, made of choices and renunciations, brings us together and divides us. It opens towards possible futures.

With works by Michel BLAZY, Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH, GENERAL IDEA, Alfredo JAAR, Sister Carita KENT, Marie LEGROS, Pascal LIEVRE, Hamid MAGHRAOUI, MAURIN ET LA SPESA, Kent MONKMAN, François NOUGUIES, Florian PUGNAIRE, Lazare SAAVEDRA, Jean-Joseph SANFOURCHE, Kristina SOLOMOUKHA,TAROOP & GLABEL and Atelier YokYok.

#25 I contest the melting snow
#26 I challenge electric fishing
#27 I challenge the patriarchy
#28 I challenge deforestation
#29 I challenge wage inequality
#30 I challenge the lack of recognition of the white vote
#31 I challenge children crying on transport
#32 I challenge the opportunists