A black hole: the possibility to bend space and time, where gravity is so strong that nothing can scape it, not even light; a type of death, perhaps.
Trou Noir is a capsule project devised to obscure our perception and betray our senses. Like a drug, it alters our relationship with so-called reality, allowing for beings, objects, and distinct matter to acquire idiosyncratic shapes, thus transfiguring the surrounding world —it may create a black hole, or simply send us into another dimension: a nightmarish state of mind. The unknown, the big Other, or that which is alien to us, they all assume chimeric features endowed with the capacity to instill lust and fear into our thoughts. Alternatively, the stranger, the devious, the perishable, they all brutally affect us, both our beliefs and affections altogether: it could be an aging body, a decaying rose, a hidden source of light or a malfunctioning synapsis.
This exhibition showcases a handful of artworks whose features attempt at reconfiguring the symbolic and tangible world, therefore bringing to light an ensemble of elements that stand in lieu of something else —preexisting entities whose nature has been corrupted, transformed, or simply damaged. Trou Noir also stands in lieu of what cannot be translated, but can be sensed, intuit, imagined— a portal to inner worlds, into darkness and beyond the dome of reason.
