Christian Globensky in residency at the CCC

The Canadian Cultural Centre has invited Christian Globensky to explore its spaces on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris.  Founded in 1970 and housed for almost 50 years in a private mansion on the Esplanade des Invalides, the CCC moved to the new Canadian Embassy in France in 2018. From May to October 2025, particularly in moments of change between two exhibitions, the artist will walk around, observe, listen, and produce a series of images, some of which will be published in postcards.

#1 “Wandering around in the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, between two exhibitions, is an attempt to conjure up forms and images in a space full of possibilities, between a void left vacant and what is about to happen again.  It also means taking side roads, and always and again to get closer to what is to come. In the meantime, a momentary absence, or even, and this is even more troubling, an missing origin…”  (Christian Globensky)

#2 “There would be a vestige of the origin in the present moment, where, on the surface, there is nothing to see. It’s in this frame of mind that I wander around the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris between two exhibitions. Deciding that every click of my camera is an incursion into time, in one hundred and twentieth of a second, capable of capturing the origin of a different reality. An origin in the present towards an origin to come… “  (Christian Globensky)

#3 “First of all, there is the aesthetic impact, followed by abandonment in a time without depth, a time of origin from which the unforeseeable can emerge. This abandonment makes it possible to live in several simultaneous eras. It is in this posture that I continue my exploration of the Canadian Cultural Centre. The experience is born of an emergence of the present through my lens, which maintains time, a use of the present moment, a ‘time zero’, between two moments in time…”. (Christian Globensky)

Christian Globensky is an artist, author, teacher and co-founder of the Keep Talking Agency (KTA), an art and ideas laboratory, who lives and works in Paris. He holds a doctorate in Arts and Art Sciences and teaches contemporary art theory and practice at the École supérieure d’art de Lorraine in Metz. Christian Globensky is the author of numerous articles and scientific works, and produces artists’ books.  With KTA Studio, his creative studio, the artist reflects on museums and cultural institutions, through artistic residencies and the production of photographic images and derived products, inviting us to see and perceive art venues differently, as well as the spirit of these venues and the devices, access and practices associated with them.

Recent and forthcoming projects:

• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, 19 November 2022 to 19 March 2023 (exhibition)
• Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, April-May 2024 (micro-residency)
• Dual perspectives (with Jeanne Susplugas), Galerie des Jours de lune, September 2025 (exhibition)
• Anatomie du sourire, KTA éditions, March 2024
• KeepTalking#4, KTA éditions, November 2024
• Warhologie, KTA éditions, November 2024

Further information:

christianglobensky@icloud.com
keeptalkingagency.wordpress.com
www.instagram.com/christianglobensky