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Since 2014, Jade Fourès-Varnier and Vincent de Hoÿm have been working together as the artist duo Jacent. In their site-specific installations, they merge art and everyday life, creating walk-in environments that explore ideas of community, intimacy, inheritance, and hospitality. With Ranch, they transform Haus Seel into a multi-layered total artwork that draws visitors into a dense, atmospheric cosmos. The title Ranch immediately evokes images of the American West, cowboys, and Marlboro advertisements. Yet Jacent distort these clichés and transpose them into the present and into the local context of Siegen. Rural culture, landscape imagery, and the region’s industrial past intersect, revealing different historical layers that overlap without becoming nostalgic or romanticized.
At the entrance, the work Barrier – consisting of a movable gate and a painting – greets visitors. It references...More
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Since 2014, Jade Fourès-Varnier and Vincent de Hoÿm have been working together as the artist duo Jacent. In their site-specific installations, they merge art and everyday life, creating walk-in environments that explore ideas of community, intimacy, inheritance, and hospitality. With Ranch, they transform Haus Seel into a multi-layered total artwork that draws visitors into a dense, atmospheric cosmos. The title Ranch immediately evokes images of the American West, cowboys, and Marlboro advertisements. Yet Jacent distort these clichés and transpose them into the present and into the local context of Siegen. Rural culture, landscape imagery, and the region’s industrial past intersect, revealing different historical layers that overlap without becoming nostalgic or romanticized.
At the entrance, the work Barrier – consisting of a movable gate and a painting – greets visitors. It references...More
