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SIMON MARTIN | La rivière
SIMON MARTIN
@galeriejousseentreprise
[At the gallery — Simon Martin] La rivière, Si
[At the gallery — Simon Martin] La rivière, Si
[Opening — Simon Martin] Vernissage Thursday, J
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[On view | Marion Chaillou - Both Ways] solo show
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[On view | Marion Chaillou - Both Ways] solo show
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[Opening - Marion Chaillou] Vernissage on May 15,
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![[At the gallery — Simon Martin]
La rivière, Simon Martin’s new exhibition is on view until September 20 (summer closing in august).
« Simon Martin’s (@simon_._martin) new exhibition at the Galerie Jousse Entreprise, entitled La Rivière, marks a shift in his work. The intimate, which has always been one of his primary preoccupations, is no longer expressed solely in its emotional texture or latent sensuality: it becomes heterogeneous material, troubled ground where an implicit commentary on the way in which our subjectivities are formed and diffracted in the contemporary world.
Once again, Simon Martin’s starting point is what is familiar to him: the intimacy of his telephone screen. He starts off by recreating the shape of this digital environment. All the canvases are long and vertical, modelled on the proportions of a smartphone. The thinness of the paint layer - much finer than in his previous series - is a direct reference to screens.
Most of the paintings follow the same logic: a collage of two images selected during his browsing on the Internet and juxtaposed to evoke the continuous dynamics of scrolling. This visual construction, in which each painting becomes a reflection of the temporary pause between two snippets of content, transposes the discontinuous flow of screens into the painting. The hanging of the paintings reinforces this sensation; they are arranged very close together, producing an almost mechanical visual repetition. In this way, the works act as a saturated surface, a kind of screen wall that overwhelms the eye. »
extract from the text by Camille Brechignac (@camille.brechignac) translated by Sadie Fletcher
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