Artist: Ola Vasiljeva
Exhibition title: N’attendons pas M.Lapatine
Venue: Antoine Levi, Paris, France
Date: May 23 – July 11, 2019
Photography: Aurélien Mole, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Antoine Levi, Paris
N’attendons pas M. Lapatine invites the viewer to a deserted environment, echoing a semi-public space or a deteriorated passage. Private and intimate remains of a personal history are concealed yet exposed behind the gaping door of M. Lapatine’s locker. With suggestive traces of former vigor, phalllic symbolism transforms here into the frail bones of an architectural underbelly. In times when gentrification and displacement dominate the urban and social landscape, Vasiljeva’s installation, developed in situ, poetically embraces spatial aging, and reflects her ongoing interest in the ambivalent relationship between historical, social and natural temporalities.
Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia, 1981) lives and works in The Netherlands. N’attendons pas M. Lapatine is her third solo exhibition at Antoine Levi gallery. Recent solo exhibitions include Haus der F., Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld (2019); Song and Love (with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy), Indipendenza, Rome (2018); The Decline of the Showpieces, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2017); Zefiro Torna, Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle, Brest (2017),Gold is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders, Supportico Lopez, Berlin (2017), The Dog With A Luminous Nose, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam(2017).
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
Ola Vasiljeva, N’attendons pas M.Lapatine, 2019, exhibition view, Antoine Levi, Paris, Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Antoine Levi
