Musée Transitoire
The Parisian art exhibition 'Musée Transitoire' invites Fernando Vacas
The 'Musée Transitoire' is an ephemeral exposition space in Paris, France. For its first edition in October 2019, the institution made use of an abandoned garage : 3,000 m2 where the artists and artworks, chosen by curators Romina Shama and Amandine Casadamont, resonated with the location, its past, its future, its materials and its lines.
The title of this first exhibit, «I would prefer not to» evoked Bartleby, the enigmatic character from Melville’s eponymous short story, who one day decides that he will no longer «do». Bartleby begins to impose a passive resistance upon his employer, an ultra-rational notary who finds himself unable to act in response.
The invited artists, architects, and authors composed works in an ephemeral evolving space that Romina Shama and Amandine Casadamont called «self-generative». The invited artists had carte blanche to conceive a project (installation, sculpture, performance, video...) in situ, in the area of their choice within the 3,000 m2 of usable space.
Fernando Vacas was invited to this first edition of 'Musée Transitoire', announced as “a must-see figure of the Spanish and Andalusian music scene”, with an experimental version of the flamenco opera: an in situ creation playing with space and acoustics.
A choreography between light and darkness at the rhythm of flamenco palms.
For this poetic underground performance, he was accompanied by dancer Amador Rojas and multi-instrumentalist Hermógenes Santiago.
