Chimen Chyen
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
17.09.2015 - 07.11.2015, opening 17.09.2015
Agents doubles, gymnetis holosericea, 2015
2 naturalized male gymnetis holosericea beetles, filled with quinine and LSD
2 x (2,5 x 1,5 x 1 cm)
unique
Exhibition view 'Chymen Chien', 2014, Marcelle Alix, Paris / Photo: Aurélien Mole
Sans titre, 2015
Super-8 film transfered to HD file
17 min
ed 5 + 1
Against All Firearms, Highway Robbers, Incendiaries, Witches and Evil Spirit, 2015
4 frames and metal box including documents and objects which belonged to Joseph Bernes, work in progress
frames: 4x (71 x 47 x 3,5 cm) / box: 22 x 24 x 7 cm
unique
Exhibition view 'Chymen Chien', 2014, Marcelle Alix, Paris / Photo: Aurélien Mole
Secteur IX B, 2015
HD video
41 min 58
ed 5 + 1
Production red shoes / Coproduction Centre Pompidou Metz, CAC Brétigny, Marcelle Alix
Collection Lafayette Anticipation - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris
"We're a few to consider creation, within our respective context, as the gradually perfectible result of several advances; not as the sudden fruit of a beautiful and secret detour. All of us take detours." Edouard Glissant, The Caribbean Discourse
We all take detours. As a matter of fact, this even is one of the goals Cecilia and I had set when we opened the gallery: seeking to operate through capillary action or by digression; prepared to let our desires get the best of us. The title Mathieu K. Abonnenc suggested for his second exhibition at Marcelle Alix therefore seemed ideal to me: instead of connecting two points via the most direct route, the Creole "chimen chyen" is a byway. It alludes to the fashion in which dogs move about through space, to the way they zigzag from one smell to another or change direction as soon as they're arraigned by new sounds: a course that may lead them to take narrow or perilous paths. Regardless of speed or efficiency, following a "chimen chyen" enhances the journey in recognition that the destination may change along the way. We share this alternate course with artists.