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Battle Piece Part II - Nouvelle Pangée
By Gabriel Moraes Aquino & Nicolas Faubert
View of ‘Battle Piece Part II - Nouvelle Pangée’ at HATCH, Paris, 2022. Photo: Nadir Bouras. Courtesy of the artists and HATCH.
View of ‘Battle Piece Part II - Nouvelle Pangée’ at HATCH, Paris, 2022. Photo: Adrien Thibault. Courtesy of the artists and HATCH.
Battle Piece Part II - Nouvelle Pangée
Dance performance and site specific installation by Nicolas Faubert & Gabriel Moraes Aquino
With their installation, Nouvelle Pangée, hosting an "all styles" dance battle for Battle Piece - Part II, Nicolas Faubert and Gabriel Moraes Aquino intend to cross two worlds that do not always mix: contemporary art and popular culture dance movements (Hip-Hop, Rap, Breakdance, Jam, Djing, Graffiti, etc.).
They wish, they say, “to bring a valorizing glance on a triumphant and multicultural youth”.
This work, both thought as heritage and ritual, provokes a decompartmentalization through an immersive experience. This work, both thought as heritage and ritual, provokes a decompartmentalization through an immersive experience.
The Nouvelle Pangée is materialized here by this circular ecosystem, a place of meeting and expression of different bodies, origins and beliefs that coexist. In the middle of the arena, encircled by sculptures taking the form of trophies, the eight dancers express themselves freely, and evolve in a "safe space". They dialogue with the works of the exhibition, with the public, real actor, and with themselves. The strength of the dancers and the crowd resonates even in the artifacts that make up the installation, to the point of giving them life. The trophies are a tribute to this duality without violence, to this competition where one triumphs, in the end, only over oneself
During the exhibition, HATCH hosted a "1vs1 all styles" dance battle. This project, initiated by Nicolas Faubert and Gabriel Moraes Aquino, is in partnership with the non-profit organization Heart Street. The battle is made of eight dancers (Nara, Dani, Viola, Omega, FEEJ; Quan Ten, Nash-Kyu and Sosa), two judges (Oomoo and Rachid Zk Flash), a DJ (DJ Sakeul), a speaker (Kryzastyle), a coordinator (Cashmire) and a host (Gabi).
The performers and dancers faced each other, round after round, through figures on the ground (breakdance, freeze, footwork...) and standing (toprock, waacking, popping, krump...) in a circular installation created for the occasion. The public voted online and then by applause for the finalists and the winner was announced, Quan Ten.
The battle is designed to represent, in a non-exhaustive way, the disciplines that make up the Hip-Hop culture, in order to offer an inclusive performance to neophytes as well as to the most refined connoisseurs.
“Battle Piece”
"Battle Piece" is an ongoing masterpiece initiated by Nicolas Faubert and Gabriel Moraes Aquino, in collaboration with the non-profit organization Heart Street, presented under different mediums, performances or social initiatives and events. With "Battle Piece", Nicolas and Gabriel intend to fuse institutional contemporary art with urban culture and its actors in order to merge and sustain their crossing. Divided in five parts, the global projects gathers multidisciplinary projects in a series of short films. HATCH is delighted to support the second part of "Battle Piece".
By Nicolas Faubert and Gabriel Moraes Aquino, with the support of Heart Street.
CV / Biography
Born in Libreville, Gabon in 1991, Nicolas Faubert is a dancer and performer who lives and works in Paris.
In 2022, he exhibited his first visual works at the Espace Julio in Belleville, on the invitation of the artist Gabriel Moraes, with whom he is currently exhibiting the film Battle Piece - Part 1 at the Fondation Fiminco, RomainvilleHe then completed two residencies, one at Luren Gallery, Suzhou in 2018 and an 11-month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2019. He is now part of the residency at the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville since 2021. In 2021, he participated in collective and collaborative projects such as the inclusive project between college students L'Autre cet Extraordinaire, a partnership between the Fiminco Foundation and La Villette.
In 2021, he will carry out a research residency on movement and decolonization at the Delfina Foundation (London) with the artist Shiraz Bayjoo. Then, they present together a performance in the Diaspora Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. In 2021, he is choreographer, improvisation coach, actor and movement designer for the work Rescue Dummies by artist Agata Ingarden, which won the Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize in Kiev.For 2022-2023, he will work with the association Orange Rouge to develop a one-year collaborative project with young people with disabilities (cognitive, behavioral or visual disorders, intellectual disabilities, etc.).
In 2020, he performed at the Ideal Libraries for Sonnets to Orpheus with pianist Richard Sears, in the exhibition The Meeting of the Waters curated by Claire Luna; The negative version of the positive version of things at Balice Hertling Gallery (Paris); The City of the Arts by artist Mona Varichon, presented at ICA London; at the festival Les Urbaines in Lausanne; at the National Gallery in Prague. In 2018, he was chosen by artist Laure Prouvost to be one of the main actors in her film Deep See Blue Surrounding You and performed in the French Pavilion throughout the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. He then performs on the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) and Bozar (Brussels) alongside a projection of Deep See Blue Surrounding You and artist Flavien Berger.
Nicolas Faubert was resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2020. He will present a new performance accompanying Laure Prouvost's film Deep See Blue Surrounding You at La Scala theater in Paris in October 2022.
Nicolas Faubert
Gabriel Moraes Aquino is a Brazilian artist born in 1994.
He lives and works in Paris, since 2017. He first graduated with a degree in Visual Communication Design at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 before graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020.
He then completed two residencies, one at Luren Gallery, Suzhou in 2018 and an 11-month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2019. He is now part of the residency at the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville since 2021. In 2021, he participated in collective and collaborative projects such as the inclusive project between college students L'Autre cet Extraordinaire, a partnership between the Fiminco Foundation and La Villette.
He has also had several collective and monographic exhibitions, such as his end-of-residency exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation (2022, Romainville), IESA arts & culture (2022, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris), Julio Artist-Run Space (2022, Paris), Maison du Chiffre (2022, Paris), at DOC (2021, Paris), Pal Project (2021, Paris), Espacio Temporal (2020, Pantin), at the XXI Cerveira International Art Biennal (2020, Vila Nova de Cerveira), LUXELAKES-A4 Art Museum (2020, Chengdu), Offshoot Gallery (2019, London), Luren Gallery (2019, Suzhou), at the Performative Arts Festival (2019, Abandoned Pharmacy School, Shanghai), in. Plano (2019, Paris), Stour Space (2018, London), Global Art Joint Curriculum as part of the ENSBAx Geidai Project at Sogetsu Plaza (2018, Tokyo), La Chapelle des Petits-Augustins (2018, Paris). He has been selected for the 71st edition Festival Jeune Création (2021, Romainville).
For 2022-2023, he will work with the association Orange Rouge to develop a one-year collaborative project with young people with disabilities (cognitive, behavioral or visual disorders, intellectual disabilities, etc.).
Gabriel Moraes Aquino