With This Chapter begins twice, Eve-Gabriel Chaba-non brings together several recurring threads of their practice. Among them is the creation of inclusive and engaged situations in which a script of commonness is rehearsed. For this exhibition, the artist presents a new body of works, in which the notions of sociability and of collective, political, and economic constructions are articulated through collages of text, textile, ceramics, and found objects. By fostering contaminations between living beings, materials, histories, and reference systems, Ève-Gabriel Chabanon questions the autonomy of the modern subject, replacing it with a sense of existential pluralism.
At the entrance of the exhibition, a cracked black blanket hangs. It is a found reversed astrakhan coat. The artist re-enacts the artisanal gestures of tanning and hand-stitching inherent to its original making in order to restore the broken piece – knowing that one such garment needs about thirty karakul lambskins.…
