Artists: Ariel Schlesinger, Douglas Gordon, Latifa Echakhch, Mircea Cantor, Miroslaw Balka, Sarah Ortmeyer
Exhibition title: ‘Corona’, Paul Celan, 1948
Venue: Dvir Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Date: March 20 – March 27, 2020
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Dvir Gallery
« Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.
From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:
then time returns to the shell.
In the mirror it’s Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth.
My eye moves down to the sex of my loved one:
we look at each other,
we exchange dark words,
we love each other like poppy and recollection,
we sleep like wine in the conches,
like the sea in the moon’s blood ray.
We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from
the street:
it is time they knew!
It is time the stone made an effort to flower,
time unrest had a beating heart.
It is time it were time.
It is time. »
‘Corona’, Paul Celan, 1948
Douglas Gordon, exhibition view, ‘Contre tout Espoir’, 2018, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Douglas Gordon, ‘Guardian from August 12, 1999’, 2001, handmade offset lithograph on igepa pure archival paper 250 g, 53.8 x 70.7 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP
Douglas Gordon, ‘Independent from August 12, 1999’, 2011, handmade offset lithograph on igepa pure archival paper 250 g, 53.8 x 71.8 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP
Douglas Gordon, ‘Sun from August 12, 1999’, 2011, handmade offset lithograph on igepa pure archival paper 250 g, 53.8 x 70.3 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP
Douglas Gordon, ‘Times from August 12, 1999’, 2011, handmade offset lithograph on igepa pure archival paper 250 g, 53.8 x 71 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP
Latifa Echakhch, ‘Several Times’, 2019, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Latifa Echakhch, ‘Several times, huile prodigieuse’, 2019, wool carpet, ink, tee-shirt, Bang & Olufsen P2 speaker, two bottles of Original Tonic Citrus, Paul Smith shirt, NUXE ‘Huile prodigieuse’ spray bottle, NIVEA deodorant, power bank charger, iPhone, 240 x 160 cm
Latifa Echakhch, ‘Several times, love don’t be shy’, 2019, wool carpet, ink, white Paul Smith shirt, fragance bottle ‘Love don’t be shy’ by Kilian – edition 2019, New Balance RC1400v5 shoes, Stuart A. Staples ‘Friday night’ vinyl record, Parisienne cigarette pack, two wine glasses, 240 x 160 cm
Mircea Cantor, ‘Rainbow’, 2010, artist’s fingerprints, etching ink, 350 x 700 cm
Miroslaw Balka, ‘390 x 190 x 40 / Light Holder’, 2015, steel, 390 x 190 x 40 cm, unique
Miroslaw Balka, ‘390 x 190 x 40 / Light Holder’ (detail), 2015, steel, 390 x 190 x 40 cm
Ariel Schlesinger, ‘Untitled’, 2007, neon, metal, 124 x 5.5 x 3 cm
Sarah Ortmeyer, ‘ARCUS’, 2019, gesso on metal, 280 x 100 cm
Sarah Ortmeyer, ‘ARCUS’, 2019, gesso on paper, 280 x 100 cm