For his fourth exhibition at the gallery, entitled Swallowed, Bertrand Lamarche will immerse the visitor in the darkness of the main space illuminated by three video installations creating a landscape at the intersection of flamboyance and realism. His scenography might recall the aesthetics of spectacle and event production: his tripods, cables, and projectors create a setting that paradoxically evokes a backstage environment while simultaneously transforming the space into a kind of kaleidoscope or optical machine.
Swallowed borrows its architectural motifs from modeling but multiplies them into a kind of general visual feedback loop. The exhibition features three new real-time video installations along with a selection of recent films. Engulfed in darkness, the space appears punctured by windows opening onto a “city”, where facades, filmed from a low angle, are animated by large illuminated signs evoking megacities, their promises, and their legends.
Larissa Fassler — also exhibiting for the fourth time — will convey her observation of the public spaces surrounding the Bourse de Commerce through a series of large “ocular” drawings, based on her residency in September 2023.
Social Orbits consists of ten works, each illustrating a different hour and temperature of the day, in the manner of how Monet depicted the Rouen Cathedral. Themes of the eye, the sun, orbit, and eclipse are central to this work, intensified by the wallpaper on which the drawings are hung, reproducing an interior view of the glass roof of the Bourse de Commerce.
Bertrand Lamarche and Larissa Fassler’s exhibitions at the gallery will run from September 28th to October 26th, 2024.
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