France Fiction: Billes-Club Concordance Accident

Experimental by its very nature, France Fiction is a group that invents the horizons of its own
collective event. Convinced of the interweaving of the real and the imaginary, the group
is a process of self-narration whose objects, installations and publications are signed both
individually and collectively.
Its members go in for mystical meetings and encyclopaedic dissemination. Utopias and
science fiction are among their central concerns, along with the traces of forgotten figures
from the past, unwritten futures, and the blind spots of knowledge. In addition to playing
marbles, they practice an itinerant poetic and scientific subjectivity, exploring the occult and
melancholy dimensions of life.

France Fiction began creating the Marble Clubs (Billes-Club) in 2004, sometimes in artistic
contexts, sometimes not. They provide an occasion to create light, mobile forms of sociability
that are carefully organised in terms of both play and aesthetics. They are open to all.
At the invitation of Raimundas Malašauksas for the Satellite programme at Jeu de Paume,
France Fiction have imagined a “Billes-Club Concordance Accident” (a new marbles club
conceived specially for and in the space of Jeu de Paume), along with an inventory of the
existing France Fiction marble clubs (“Billes-Club du Palais Royal”, 2004; “Stockholm Kula
Klubben”, 2007; “Billard Parisien”, 2007; the “London Marble Club”, 2008; “Berliner Murmel
Klub”, 2010).

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Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas

Partners:
The Fondation nationale des arts graphiques et plastiques (FNAGP) contributes to the production of the works of the Satellite program.
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with agnès b.,
Central Color and the Nouveaux Ateliers

Media Partners: Artpress, parisart.com, Radio Nova and Souvenirs from earth TV