Healthy Boy Band
17th Biennale de Lyon
21 September 2024 – 5 January 2025
Founded in 1991, the Biennale de Lyon is the most important contemporary art exhibition in France. The 17th edition in 2024, which is titled Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water and curated by Alexia Fabre, invites artists to interrogate and investigate the subject of the waxing and waning relationships of human beings with one another and with their environment.
For this project, the biennial is drawing on the geography of the region, and on the spirit of the Biennale’s new venues: Les Grandes Locos, a former industrial site that was used for maintaining and repairing cargo trains, and the Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie. These spaces are permeated by the question of relationships and of welcoming the other. They embody history, diversity and the invention of communal ways of working. Their walls, which still bear the traces and experiences of the men and women who worked and lived there, still conjure rituals of communal living.
For the 17th Biennale de Lyon, Healthy Boy Band has been invited to organize a gastronomic and artistic performance event at the exhibition's opening to encourage visitors to share and meet one another. In the outdoor spaces of Les Grandes Locos, in the middle of the gardens and between the industrial halls, the three chefs prepared a banquet to which all visitors were invited. The idea was to reshape a site that was formerly dedicated to heavy industry and capitalism, then abandoned and forgotten, to become a place of celebration and social gathering. Healthy Boy Band worked with French and international chefs to create the menus.
This is their first collaboration with Phileas.
