L'Ambassade is Cécilia Becanovic and Maxime Thieffine, a team of two curators of contemporary art exhibitions. This collaboration was born out of a shared obsession for accumulating reproductions of art works via books or the internet and from the subsequent necessity to organise this expanding memory. What first was a private hobby carried out individually became a shared activity and the beginining of L’Ambassade. Thus adding those two archives together, they create links and curatorial projects which can lead to either an exhibition or a video program or a conference or a publication or an exhibition template as a pdf file.

They use works of art, digital art work reproductions, other images sources, documents, texts, casual objects, fragments of TV programs, etc. They are attempting to draw out secret genealogies between artists from different times and orientations, being at once historical, pedagogic & playful in their approach. Tracing paths with art works is a way to appropriate them, to speak with and through them from their own singular point of view. They speak in order to tell hidden stories or to multiply the relations that one may have with them.