Unto Dust at Fitzpatrick Gallery

Artists: Clovis Bataille, Dora Budor, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, François Durel, Cyprien Gaillard, Jasmine Gregory, Matthias Groebel, Sarah Ksieska, Klara Lidén, Patricio Lima Quintana, Jacopo Mazzetti, Alexandra Metcalf, Donald Moett, David Moser, Jill Mulleady, Juan Antonio Olivares, Henrik Olesen, Berenice Olmedo, Josephine Pryde, Erin Calla Watson, Angharad Williams, Jordan Wolfson

Exhibition title: Unto Dust

Venue: Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, France

Date: March 25 – April 29, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

Une ville !nit par être une personne. – Victor Hugo

Trudging alone through the heated city, backwards over concrete, dispelled, disheveled, dissolved and disar-

ray. Sirens surround me. In a panic.

Spit out and pitted, like the olive I was stirring, in a “ash, transplanted. A cosmic explosion unroots my toes from this cement tundra.

A jump too high propels me to the sun, staying too low sucks me down. Fear pulls me deeper.

It’s perpetual. Peeling open the wound as liquid chrome pours out of the crevasse. Tripping over heaps of ash, shattered beneath the pavement.

Asphalt acts as ideal landing. Imploding cells provide a pad for entry. Inner organs harden, soften. Mucous membranes melt into metal. Plastic protects me.

Subterranean layers steal my frenzied pulse. Catacombs, plagued by rats, circumference an eternal shell. Stillness keeps them haunted.

Twitching eyelids stagger sight, blurring earthly matter. Craniums combust, exposing cracks in the network. Circuits break and systems shatter. Counting seconds left on terra.

The underground makes a #nal lap around the metropole. Sanguine, I remain. Cellular connection terminated.

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Unto Dust was realized during the ongoing protests against government reforms in France, and is guided by similar forces of exhaustion and resilience.

Unto Dust, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, March 25 – April 29, 2023, Exhibition view, Courtesy of Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

Josephine Pryde, N-CT-W 3 (Ø), 2022, Chromogenic print, 42 x 5 x 3 cm, 16 1/2 x 20 1/8 x 11/8 in, Edition of 3 (2/3), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Josephine Pryde, N-CT-W 4 (Ø), 2022, Chromogenic print, 42 x 5 x 3 cm, 16 1/2 x 20 1/8 x 11/8 in, Edition of 3 (2/3), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Josephine Pryde, N-CT-W 5 (Ø), 2022, Chromogenic print, 42 x 5 x 3 cm, 16 1/2 x 20 1/8 x 11/8 in, Edition of 3 (2/3), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Josephine Pryde, N-CT-W 6 (Ø), 2022, Chromogenic print, 42 x 5 x 3 cm, 16 1/2 x 20 1/8 x 11/8 in, Edition of 3 (2/3), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Klara Lidén, The Myth Of Progress (Moonwalk), 2022, Video (color, sound) 3:30min, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin

David Moser, DCE089DG-QW, 2022, DeWalt construction laser level, green, 6 x 33 x 45 cm (chacun), 6 1/4 x 13 x 17 3/4 in (each), Courtesy of the artist

Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Untitled, 2022, Umbrella, gold 22c, 92 x 80 x 34 cm, 36 1/4 x 311/2 x 13 3/8 in, Courtesy of the artist and Femtensesse, Oslo

Jasmine Gregory, For What It’s Worth, 2022, Oil, epoxy, glitter, magazine and plastic on linen, 90 x 100 cm, 35 3/8 x 39 3/8 in, Courtesy of the artist and King’s Leap, New York

Patricio Lima Quintana, Eau De Javel, 2022, Custom scent in collaboration with Cléménce Besse Aluminium, liquid, 2 Euros coin, Courtesy of the artist

Jacopo Mazzetti, +, 2022, Six holographic LEDs, brass covered in volcanic sand (Stromboli, IT) mixed with ash and quartz crystals, punctured with star sapphire stone, coagulated polyurethane high-refractive index glass bead fabric, light-modulation hardware, 140 x 120 x 30 cm, 55 x 47 x 8 in (sculpture), 300 x 450 cm, 120 x 180 in (panels), Courtesy of the artist

Clovis Bataille, Untitled (Fakir), 2020, Wood, used needles, 62 x 80 cm, 24 x 70.8 in, Courtesy of the artist

Cyprien Gaillard, Queen City, 2012, Beer labels on original photograph with cropping marks, 38 x 49 cm, 15 x 19 1/4 in (framed), 17 x 23 cm, 6 3/4 x 9 in (image), Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin

Jill Mulleady, Pissing Against the Moon, 2023, Oil on linen, 45 x 50 cm, 17.7 x 19.7 in, Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

Dora Budor, Something To Remind Me, 2021, Eleven objects made of melted aluminium, wooden pedestal, 11.5 x 8.9 x 1.9 cm (each), 7.5 x 36.5 x 16.5 cm, 3 x 14 3/8 x 6 1/2 in, 60 x 60 x 20 cm (plinth), 24 x 24 x 8 in, Courtesy of the artist

Matthias Grobel, L1595, 1995, Acrylic on canvas Computer assisted painting, 95 x 95 cm, 37.4 x 37.4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Schiefe Zähne, Berlin

Matthias Grobel, Untitled, 1995, Acrylic on canvas Computer assisted painting, 95 x 95 cm, 37.4 x 37.4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Schiefe Zähne, Berlin

François Durel, Lion lies down, 2023, Jewellery display, press photograph of Pasolini’s corpse printed on metal, metal sctructure, 39 x 20 x 10 cm, 15 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 4 in, Courtesy of the artist

Henrik Olesen, Untitled, 2023, Oil on canvas, acrylic gel medium, spray paint, tape, 30 x 40 cm, 11 6/8 x 15 3/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Nero, Turin

Berenice Olmedo, Pyhlum, 2022, Transfemoral test sockets, prosthetic adapters, hospital bed rails, resin, 70 x 70 x 220 cm 27.6 x 27.6 x 86.6 in, Courtesy of the artist and Lodos Gallery, Mexico City

Jordan Wolfson, Untitled, 2020, Archival inkjet print with enamel paint, marker, and adhesive media in powder-coated aluminum artist’s frame, 101.3 x 106.4 x 7.6 cm 39 7/8 x 4 7/8 x 3 in, Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, Paris

Juan Antonio Olivares, Untitled (endoscopy), 2023, Acrylic and graphite powder on aluminium honeycomb panel, 122 x 83 x 2.5 cm 48 x 72 x 1 in, Courtesy of the artist and Maria Bernheim, Zurich

Donald Moffett, Lot 062819 (nature cult, counterclockwise black), 2019, Pigmented epoxy resin, urethane paint, and UV clear coat on wood and urethane panel support, steel, 122.5 x 120 x 19 cm, 48 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 7 1/2 in, Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Angharad Williams, Mini Cooper 1.3i, 2022, Charcoal on paper, 305 x 134 cm, 120 1/8 x 52 3/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Schiefe Zähne, Berlin

Erin Calla Watson, Goodnight Donnie, 2022, Dye sublimation print on aluminum mounted on dibond, framed, 146.05 x 109.22 cm (image), 57 1/2 x 43 in, 149.86 x 115.57 x 5.08 cm (framed), 59 x 45 1/2 x 2 in, Courtesy of the artist and Foxy Production, New York City

Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Untitled (parchment), 2022, Oil, pigment and wax on card- board, umbrella’s rib and silk, 33 x 40 x 21 cm, 13 x 15 3/4 x 8 1/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Femtensesse, Oslo

Alexandra Metcalf, Bayreuth Hush, 2023, Oil on decoupage linen, 43.2 x 50.8 x 3 cm, 17 x 20 x 11/8 in, Courtesy of the artist

Sarah Ksieska, Private sunset, 2020, Oil on patinated aluminium, 225 x 120 cm, 88 5/8 x 47 1/4 in, Courtesy of the artist and Fons Welters, Amsterdam

Jordan Wolfson, Untitled, 2020, Archival inkjet print with enamel paint, marker, and adhesive media in powder-coated aluminum artist’s frame, 101.3 x 106.4 x 7.6 cm, 39 7/8 x 41 7/8 x 3 in, Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, Paris