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EXILE is happy to invite you to the first solo exhibition of Prague-based artist Julie Béna in Austria.
Welcome to the Uncanny Circus of Julie Béna.
They say some people are afraid of clowns.
Who can blame them?
The clown, after all, is not only an innocent fool — he is also the trickster who sells you a front-row ticket to the “Greatest Show on Earth,” only for you to find wonders that feel suspiciously close to everyday horrors. Beneath the greasepaint grin is a grafter, a shape-shifter, a character whose cheerfulness never quite manages to mask menace.
It is precisely this uncomfortable territory between comedy and dread that Julie Béna’s Deep, deep, deep, very deep so elegantly inhabits. The skeletal horse greets us at the entrance like a phantom from a bygone parade — a nod to power’s faded grandeur. Once a symbol of triumph, now reduced to bone and posture, it nonetheless retains a chilling grin, caught mid-performance, refusing to fully exit the ring. This horse is not only a…
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EXILE is happy to invite you to the first solo exhibition of Prague-based artist Julie Béna in Austria.
Welcome to the Uncanny Circus of Julie Béna.
They say some people are afraid of clowns.
Who can blame them?
The clown, after all, is not only an innocent fool — he is also the trickster who sells you a front-row ticket to the “Greatest Show on Earth,” only for you to find wonders that feel suspiciously close to everyday horrors. Beneath the greasepaint grin is a grafter, a shape-shifter, a character whose cheerfulness never quite manages to mask menace.
It is precisely this uncomfortable territory between comedy and dread that Julie Béna’s Deep, deep, deep, very deep so elegantly inhabits. The skeletal horse greets us at the entrance like a phantom from a bygone parade — a nod to power’s faded grandeur. Once a symbol of triumph, now reduced to bone and posture, it nonetheless retains a chilling grin, caught mid-performance, refusing to fully exit the ring. This horse is not only a…
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