Sans titre (2016), vol.4 : Le Laboratoire at Sans titre (2016)

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.