Artists: Alex Ayed, Robert Brambora, Beth Collar, Vincent Ceraudo, Basile Ghosn, Agata Ingarden, Hamish Pearch, Real Madrid Collective, Max Richter, Romain Sarrot, Roni Shneior, Romain Vicari
Exhibition title: Sans titre (2016), vol.4 : Le Laboratoire
Curated by: Marie Madec, Lucie Sotty
Venue: Sans titre (2016), Marseille, France
Date: August 24 – September 3, 2017
Photography: Aurélien Meimaris, all images copyright and courtesy of the artists
This exhibition is characterized by the importance of its container: the place as the starting point. A space where everything seems familiar, furnished and populated with everyday elements – faucets, sinks and worktops – but somehow everything seems out of place. Disturbing transformation as Freud would say.
Within this evocative universe, this bunker that visitors discover after taking a few steps, each art-piece responds to each other, evokes a thousand narrations and topoi of pop culture: there an alien came to look for his guinea pig among mankind, here an archaeological myth readapted. They relate the world, the paranormal, the distortion of space and time, the Anthropocene, the nuclear age, science-fiction, and so on.
Artists invent their own chimeras, reflects their amused, terrified visons or simply a express their curiosity about the most recent scientific experiments, questioning our relationship to ethics.
Agata Ingarden, BMW-mat, 2017
Agata Ingarden, BMW-mat, 2017
Agata Ingarden, BMW-mat, 2017
Alex Ayed, Bumblebee, 2017
Alex Ayed, Soap on a soap on another soap, 2017
Alex Ayed, Untitled (2017), 2017
Basile Ghosn, Untitled, 2017
Basile Ghosn, Ville invisible 1, 2016
Beth Collar, Seriously, 2017
Beth Collar, Seriously, 2017
Beth Collar, Seriously, 2017
Hamish Pearch, How things hold together, 2017
Hamish Pearch, How things hold together, 2017
Max Richter, Flutschi, 2016
Max Richter, Flutschi, 2016
Real Madrid Collective, You make the program for life, you make the program, 2017
Robert Brambora, Rat Heaven & The old boy and the see, 2017
Robert Brambora, Rat Heaven & The old boy and the see, 2017
Robert Brambora, Untitled, 2017
Romain Vicari, Chimical fruit, 2017
Roni Shneior, Monkey #2, 2016
Roni Shneior, Monkey #2, 2016
Vincent Ceraudo, Observatory, 2016