Moon Star Love
Nina Beier, Karla Black, Eli Cortiñas, Aurélien Froment, Lydia Gifford, Ernesto Sartori, Lucy Skaer, Hayley Tompkins
14.11.2009 - 23.01.2010, opening 13.11.2009
Dial M for Mother, 2008
double video-projection, 16:9 English and Spanish with English subtitles, Dolby Stereo
11 min
ed 5 + 2
photo: Aurélien Mole
Picturing Young Man #03, 500 BC-2009
carved stone in a glass case
shelf : 23 x 41 cm / glass case: 10 cm high
unique
Pith and Kernal, 2007
seven oak rounds with mother-of-pearl inlay
plinth and glass case: 130 x 35 x 35 cm
unique
Random Portrait #3, 2009
collage on paper
59,4 x 84,1 cm with frame
unique
Random Portrait #6, 2009
collage on paper
59,4 x 84,1 cm with frame
unique
Artificiel VI, 2009
found object, photograph, gouache
65 x 10 x 6 cm
unique
What to Ask of Others, 2008
polythene, chalk dust, thread
190 x 280 x 90 cm
unique
photo: Aurélien Mole
Rumour, 2009
acrylic, gauze, paint, pigment, charcoal, wood, emulsion, cloth, ink
variable
unique
photo: Aurélien Mole
The group show we are putting on attempts to answer various questions we raised prior to opening the gallery. How are projects and objects in the making to be defined? How are two sensibilities to be matched? These exchanges are excerpts from our conversation.
Cécilia Becanovic: When we visited the Lucy Skaer show at the Basel Kunsthalle earlier this year, we instantly wanted to show her work in Paris, and offer her an involvement in Marcelle Alix's first project. Things took shape from that kind of fairly obvious fact. Isabelle Alfonsi: When I met Lucy in 2008, at her shared exhibition with Rosalind Nashashibi at the Brétigny Contemporary Art Centre, we talked again about her "black drawings", which I'd seen at the 2007 Venice Biennale (the motifs she draws are so small and squeezed together that from a distance you think the drawings are completely black). She explained to me that she'd produced some of them while she was on a residency in [...]