WHAT WE SEE, WHAT LOOKS BACK AT US
An exhibition usually assumes a simple contract: the visitor looks, the object submits to being seen. The gaze passively travels from point A to point B, recognizes familiar contours, draws its conclusions. But in fact any gaze mirrors the viewer. The works gathered here operate in this register. They are more interested in watching the […]
Being and Longing: Enough Is Never Enough
Some people believe earnestness and intellectualism are mutually exclusive. Some people have become consumed with brands and trends. I am not one of these people. Every once in a while, you meet someone or experience something that alters your present perspective, that fucks with your future understanding, that urges you to retrace the steps you […]
Where the Ground Can Melt
The Ateliers de La Madeleine are pleased to present Theo Guicheron Lopez’s first exhibition in France at the ancient Baths of Constantine in Arles. An artist and poet, Theo Guicheron Lopez’s entire oeuvre stems from his profound connection to places, in the sense given to topophilia by the Chinese-American geographer Yi-Fu Tuan: the feeling of […]
Ghost Software
Painting and clothing are ambivalent media: both “make bodies” through surfaces that cover, figure and let them appear. In Czyszczoń’s works, the framed image loosens its boundaries and moves outward, while a shirt, stripped of its function, becomes a broken architecture for an absent body. Moving between garment, painting and object, he enacts a form […]
Wisła felt lonely so I invited her in
In the project Wisła felt lonely so I invited her inI explore the role of water within the domestic sphere, focusing specifically on the presence of the Vistula River (known in Polish as Wisła) in the bathroom. Most of the water running through Warsaw homes originates from her. Our most frequent daily contact with water […]
Call It Fate, Call It Karma
According to Agnieszka Topolska, matter is never neutral—it always carries traces of previous transformations. In the final days of installing the exhibition Call It Fate, Call It Karma, a crushed Evian water bottle was placed beneath a glass cloche, displayed on four polished rods. At the same time, it could just as easily have been […]
Reparaturgesellschaft
“What exactly is the Wewerka Pavilion? It is certainly not an exhibition space, because for reasons of building and zoning regulations, it is off-limits to the public. This very circumstance also renders its designation as a sculpture—as architecture that can be experienced autonomously—absurd.” Sabine Maria Schmidt, Stadtblatt, May 1988 The question that Sabine Maria Schmidt […]
Trigger Warning
A colorful balloon holding violence, nudity, sex, flashing lights, murder, or suicide – disclaimers before a movie, a TV show, a warning printed on a theater ticket. Suddenly, someone pulls the trigger – the balloon bursts. The “trigger warning” detaches itself from screens and becomes an actual human condition, an everyday experience. Until recently, storylines […]
Sinthome
Jouissance emerges in the fissures of language, in experiences that transcend the boundaries of what can be articulated. It is a sensation born from excess, intensity, and at times, suffering – an inseparable aspect of human desire. – Inspired by Jacques Lacan’s theory of jouissance The exhibition Sinthome by Laurie Smith at Galeria Wschód presents […]
The Story of a Thread Seen Through the Window
The Why Not Gallery is pleased to present Erekle Chinchilakashvili’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, The Story of a Thread Seen Through the Window. The gallery’s new venue at Fabrika Tbilisi serves as the point of departure for the artist’s research. Drawing on the history of the complex – formerly the “Nino” sewing factory, […]