Ignasi Aballí, A Kassen, Nina Beier, Alighiero Boetti, Sarah Bostwick, Mariana Castillo Deball, Susan Collis, Lieven De Boeck, Marjolijn Dijkman, Patrick Everaert, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Dora Garcia, Sofia Hultén, Michael Johansson, Kris Martin, Jorge Méndez Blake, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Ortmeyer, Cornelia Parker, Claudio Parmiggiani, Sarah Pickering, Kirsten Pieroth, Wilfredo Prieto, Evariste Richer, Damien Roach, Sylvain Rousseau, Fabrice Samyn, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Mungo Thomson, Rachel Whiteread

"I am imagining a building in Paris whose façade has been removed (...) so that, from the ground floor to the attic rooms, all the rooms at the front of the building are instantly and simultaneously visible." G. Perec
La Vie Mode d'Emploi (Life A User's Manual) is an exhibition that can be considered as a double tribute. It clearly alludes to the eponymous book by Georges Perec published in 1978 as well as celebrating, in a roundabout way, the centenary of the construction of the house (1911) in which the gallery operates. In his book, subtitled "novels", Perec traces the life of a building located at number 11 in the (imaginary) rue Simon-Crubellier in Paris between 1875 and 1975. Each chapter describes methodically a specific room in the building. In the 600 pages of the book, Perec writes about the residents of the building, as well as the objects found there, and stories concerning them, either directly or indirectly. In parallel with the structure of the book, it was decided to open up literally all areas of the gallery to exhibit works (offices, storage rooms, kitchen, etc.). The structure of the building described by Perec is schematised into a kind of chessboard with ten by ten squares, from the cellars to the attics. Emulating the movement of the knight in chess, Perec moves methodically through the hundred boxes in the course of a hundred chapters which, in an attempt to muddy the waters, only go up to ninety-nine.

Work of Hreinn: Urban impressions, 2011, puzzle on wall, variable dimensions