In 2023, Imagine! le FITE is in Lithuania, crossing the country from east to west, from
Vilnius to Kaunas and Nida on the Baltic Sea.
The festive opening week of the biennale takes place from June 5 to 11, 2023, with the
Imagine! exhibition at the House of Histories running from June 7, 2023 to October 29, 2023.
Fite 2022-2023
Imagine !
Whether it's the ability to visualize images from sensory or abstract perceptions, or a
sensitive form derived from direct experience, imagination leads to a proposal, and once
shared, it's a common project to follow for a better humanity. Like an injunction, the
exclamation mark invites artists to entrust us with their suggestions, wild or utopian, for
tomorrow and for improving human skills, while preserving our planet.
This year, the FITE celebrates its 10th anniversary. It wants to give free rein to new
imaginations, nourished by lucid hopes, rejecting beatitude and capitulation. The FITE
proposes to rise up against submission and resignation to the cynical vision of the future. It
makes hope revolutionary, "kindness a political act", and places human emotions and
feelings at the center (Alexandra Rowland). In its main exhibition, FITE invites artists to
imagine a new shared history, a new world that cares for the environment, new artistic
practices and new forms of consumption, a new body and new materials to adorn it, a new
world where humor and illusion intersect. FITE defends a space of freedom and creativity
where imagination is born, a tool for emancipation and social transformation. In 2022,
Clermont-Ferrand will come alive around this reflection, while in 2023, the FITE will visit
several Lithuanian cities (Vilnius, Klaipeda, Kaunas, etc.) to present the work carried out in
collaboration with the Vilnius Academy of Arts and a selection of international artists,
enriched by heritage pieces at the House of Histories of the National Museum of Lithuania in
Vilnius.
Artists
Cette année 2022 le FITE est labellisé Saison Croisée France Portugal par l’Institut Français. Ainsi Contextile, biennale internationale d’art textile contemporain (Portugal) et le FITE (France), programment en miroir, dans chacun de leur pays respectif, deux expositions, deux
workshops, et quatre résidences artistiques. Ces échanges sont rendus publiques lors de la
biennale Contextile à Guimaraes du 2 septembre au 30 octobre 2022 et à Clermont-Ferrand
durant le FITE du 20 au 25 septembre 2022. Dans ce contexte le Musée d’Art Roger-Quilliot
(MARQ) présente une exposition de 10 artistes portugais du 15 septembre 2022 au 26 mars
2023, et ce sont 10 artistes de France qui sont accueillis au Palais des Ducs de Bragance
durant Contextile.


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