If one thinks hard about the question and even if daily life remains central and inspires the artists, spectacle and daily life are antagonistic. Despite its alienating effects, one could not do without the other.

As contemporary art is a spectacular phenomenon, it is important to observe the artists and artistic communities which, in all regions of the world, share more and more knowledge and common strategies (globalization everywhere), as they take on daily life. Vast subject for an abundant Biennial event.

It is held in several sites in Lyon, at the Contemporary Art Museum, an important place for dialogue, exchange and permanence. At La Sucrière which is a key place, At the Fondation Bullukian, spectacular Lyonnais sponsor and at l’Entrepôt Bichat which is a new venue for the event. It is made of reinforced concrete with large half-moon picture windows. Ideal …

Among the numerous projects of the Biennial event, one will retain Veduta , which invites several artists to live in the suburbs with population stemming from immigration and witnesses of historic events

Works will be produced there, and then exposed in the museum. This window open to art corresponds, certainly, to a creation policy, but its is also a question of receiving, which is one of peculiarities of the Lyon Biennial event among the one hundred and fifty Contemporary art Biennial events spread all over the world. Rendezvous on the markets for printed pancakes, in a bakery of the area to discover painted breads such as the one of Man Ray. Daily life, only daily life.

Slide show: 10^th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennial