Gallery Activation: Menon Bellet's "Brèves braises"

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Image courtesy of the artist from a performance at Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, Denmark, 2017, Photo by Niels Fabæk © Manon Bellet

In the installation "Brèves braises," artist Menon Bellet affixes the charred remains of burned paper on the walls of the gallery in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. From these tattered remains, she creates a script or musical score that runs across an entire length of a long white wall. Created in collaboration with musicians that Bellet invites to compose an accompanying musical score, these burned fragments of paper have a graphic dynamism and rhythm that resembles that of improvisational music or impromptu speech. Over the course of her installation, she allows these papers to gradually drop to the floor, encouraged by movement of air generated by the improvisational energy of bodies and instruments as the move through and activate the installation. This month's activation will feature New Orleans-based drummer, composer, technologist, visual artist, researcher, and educator Justin Peake. 

3 pm–4 pm. Learn more about Bodies of Knowledge and its other artist installations at noma.org.