SOON: 21.06.23, Ni drame ni suspense, Triangle Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai

SOON: 21.06.23, Ni drame ni suspense, Triangle Astérides






Riding the bliss    18.03.23–23.04.23    La Traverse, Marseille (FR)

[...] PRÉSENTATION: Et puis, en fait, introductions, adresses, syntaxes, codes, citations, références populaires, gifs, plateformes: ce ne sont qu’emballages. Alors je savoure le bonbon, le crépitement brillant qui le précède, le jeu du chat et de la souris, la préparation et le trash talk sans fin pour un combat de 2 minutes, le jeu de l’entertainment, du cadeau et de sa dissimulation, contenu, contenant, l’amant et l’être aimé, un peu bouffant, un peu bouffé, chatoyant, choyé. Et si il n’y avait que ça? Circuits longs de plus en plus courts, babines, salives, réflexes, récompenses. See more +

Curation: Catherine Bastide    Photo: Jean-Christophe Lett







Keeping Up Appearances    01–18.12.22    Lokal Int, Bienne (CH)

[...] In an overall, times seem to collapse. While the injunction «keep up appearances» evokes the merciless rhythm of consumption and its social pressure, the patching of various eras of interiors, styles and references layered by the very personal spectrum of the artist’s envies and desires give the feeling of an anachronistic compilation. The feeling of time are shuffled once again by the slow-process of painting that certainly operate as a catharsis. The artistic process being way longer than the one of the commercial purchase provide a kind of reverse chronology. Hanna reinvent the idea of possession that can no longer be dealt with impersonal currencies but need to be owned first: desiring the desire. Keep up with appearances is no longer a threat, and the rules of the visual merchandising are no longer «what you see is what you get». It tells us instead that we do desire, we can then see. See more +

Curation: Héloïse Chassepot    Photo: Stefania Carlotti







Shifters   17.10.22–05.11.22    Sentiment, Paris (FR/CH) The new age soundtrack in the downstairs waiting hall at Orly does little to ease the shock. I stroll past carousels of perfume stock, to get distracted and waste time. The overall vibe gives me nothing to hold onto, remaining as transitory as its location. “Eternity” “Fahrenheit” “Poison” “Knowing” “Ma liberté”. I embalm myself. The word perfume comes from the Latin word “fumus” meaning “smoke” probably related to incense burned into the air in the moment of prayer. With the invention of toilet spray waters, came restoration, from energies lost in business, social and domestic situations. One of the first perfumes in Europe, “Hungary Water” was named after the so-called Queen of Hungary who commanded a court alchemist to make it for her headaches. But, the legend says she never existed, she was invented. See more +
Curation: Sentiment   Photo: Jean Vincent Simonet






Wishlist    20.11.2021–10.01.2022    13 Vitrine, Lausanne (CH)
In the fashion issues dedicated to the festive season, the editors take on the ambitious task of compiling the many original and expensive products that make up the famous Christmas wishlist, inviting their readers to do the same. The desire to buy handbags, shoes, scarves and jewelry is mixed, often in a subtle way, with the frustration of not being able to acquire the object of one's desire. See more +
Curation: 13 Vitrine    Photo: Stefania Carlotti






Peeping through the looking glass   16.06.2021–09.07.2021    SET SPACE, London (GB)

“Still she haunts me, phantomwise,” Peep all you want; the blurring paint’s left its stain. Sight obstructed, yet you trespass. Beyond the whitened glass. “Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy enough to get through—’ She was up on the chimney-piece while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there. And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist.” –Lewis Carroll, 1872. See more +

Curation: Hasch    Photo: Agnese Sanvito