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Le Point Commun, espace d'art contemporain•May 24, 2025 — Jul 26, 2025
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Frederik Exner Vaults 24.05 — 26.07.25
Vault is a strange scene that gives the viewer the feeling of being in a different time, but whether it is the future, the past or an alternative present is hard to tell. The exhibition is a parcours through three rooms, a movement towards the innermost chamber.
Hanging on the high walls of the exhibition space are three tall reliefs all with the same form: a sort of body-shape, but simplified – like an egyptian sarcophagus or a babushka doll – beyond recognition, had it not been for the eyes. They are hybrid in many ways, oscillating between sculpture and drawing, body and object and between organic and architectural. The 2 meters in height is what makes them resemble some kind of body-capsules, but all the more so it seems very alien – almost violent – that they are hanging upside down!
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Le Point Commun, espace d'art contemporain•May 24, 2025 — Jul 26, 2025
Press Release
Frederik Exner Vaults 24.05 — 26.07.25
Vault is a strange scene that gives the viewer the feeling of being in a different time, but whether it is the future, the past or an alternative present is hard to tell. The exhibition is a parcours through three rooms, a movement towards the innermost chamber.
Hanging on the high walls of the exhibition space are three tall reliefs all with the same form: a sort of body-shape, but simplified – like an egyptian sarcophagus or a babushka doll – beyond recognition, had it not been for the eyes. They are hybrid in many ways, oscillating between sculpture and drawing, body and object and between organic and architectural. The 2 meters in height is what makes them resemble some kind of body-capsules, but all the more so it seems very alien – almost violent – that they are hanging upside down!
According to Michel Serres, the archaic statue originated not just as a tomb effigy, a representation of the buried...More
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