Demons
Galerie Nathalie Obadia•Nov 08, 2024 — Jan 25, 2025
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to present Demons, Antoine Renard’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. A native of Lourdes and the new town of Cergy Pontoise, the artist has developed a protean body of work where telluric and digital elements are combined with odors. The issue of exorcism in our society is once again at the heart of this new corpus: it is addressed through the body – its representation and its intimate and collective reception – and its traumatic memory, bringing together contemporary mythologies, new media and popular beliefs.
The title of the exhibition, Demons, is aptly linked to the bewitching fragrances and sensual forms of the fifteen new sculptures on view. These 3d-ceramic prints suggest anthropomorphic silhouettes evoking specters or ruins. They rise up in space, in contact with the fragrance of a fictitious psychotropic plant, mixed with a series of sounds and ritual chants that the artist gleaned then reworked during his...More
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Demons
Galerie Nathalie Obadia•Nov 08, 2024 — Jan 25, 2025
Press Release
Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to present Demons, Antoine Renard’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. A native of Lourdes and the new town of Cergy Pontoise, the artist has developed a protean body of work where telluric and digital elements are combined with odors. The issue of exorcism in our society is once again at the heart of this new corpus: it is addressed through the body – its representation and its intimate and collective reception – and its traumatic memory, bringing together contemporary mythologies, new media and popular beliefs.
The title of the exhibition, Demons, is aptly linked to the bewitching fragrances and sensual forms of the fifteen new sculptures on view. These 3d-ceramic prints suggest anthropomorphic silhouettes evoking specters or ruins. They rise up in space, in contact with the fragrance of a fictitious psychotropic plant, mixed with a series of sounds and ritual chants that the artist gleaned then reworked during his...More
