Vase of Hyacinths
Vase of Hyacinths is the first London exhibition by Chilean painter Juan Martinez Macari, following his first major solo exhibition in Chile last year. For Martinez Macari, painting and gardening are parallel, inseparable practices. Over the past nine years, the artist has lived in relative seclusion in Idahue, a rural area approximately two hours south […]
host and distill
Venice is a city suspended between water and air. Its boundaries are constantly reshaped by the tides. Salt permeates brick and stone; mist rises from the lagoon at dawn and slowly dissolves at dusk. Here, matter is never static. It exists in a continuous state of exchange, sedimentation, evaporation, and transformation. Host and Distill begins […]
Augur
A leap – and a void. An augur imagines the future, finding inspiration in the unpredictable gestures of flight. In Steffani Jemison’s expansive exhibition, conditions of endurance and escape are linked in a continuous installation of sound, sculpture, drawing, and video. The idea of moving within conditions of constraint strongly informs the practice of Steffani […]
more-than-cities
The city functions like an overloaded metabolic system. It pulsates with light and the movement of bodies entangled in the infrastructure. Its choreography is dictated by the rhythm of work and the circulation of capital. The cells are exploited. The cells are exhausted. The cells are sick. They do not heal evenly. Some become overgrown, […]
From a Faraway Meadow (Desde un prado lejano)
Through porcelain, María Enríquez shifts elements of the organic—flowers, petals, sprouts—toward a state of permanence. The ephemeral becomes fixed in a material historically linked to delicacy, ornament, and conservation. The installation thus moves between persistence and disappearance, between the desire to preserve and the inescapable awareness of loss. The meadow here appears as a liminal […]
A gentle kiss on a double forehead
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. It does not entail working out a subtext or categorising things to your liking, but persistence in being with what is there. Its significance grows whenever it encounters what has been harmed or deprived of a voice of its own, allowing us to take a pause […]
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 […]