ÆTHER

Adjust, arrange, divert, combine.
Gesture after gesture, forms emerge.
Ephemeral and composite, between recovery and intuition.
They draw on what is there: gathered objects, everyday materials, available fragments.
A shiver runs through the matter, a subtle vibration.

Motifs appear, layer upon layer,
Recurring, cyclical, assembled.
Like memories that insist, persist.
Fragile compositions that activate a space,
Between the intimate and the sacred, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the geometric and the organic.

Ceilings, walls, floors, suspensions.
From one image to another, tensions arise.
The elements overlap, contradict, and arrange themselves.
Some junctions hold, others falter.
Situations. States. Zones.

Step by step, space becomes landscape.
A perspective, a horizon, vanishing points.
Not merely an image to contemplate, but an expanse to be crossed.
Each work is a territory to be experienced,
In the interstice, the fracture, the between-line.

Vincent Gallais composes with time.
His works take shape in duration and movement,
Between stretched present, traces of the past, and openings toward a speculative future.
He offers an exhibition to be lived as a passage.

Here, the intimate becomes matter.
The ordinary becomes tension.
Fiction seeps into the hollows.

Margot Rieder
President of the association Le Tube and curator