Palais de Tokyo exhibitions - Les ambassadeurs, Jesse Darling / Vernis à ombres, Benoît Piéron
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Through gestures that are at once simple, minimal and spectacular, the sculptures of Jesse Darling (2023 winner of the Turner Prize) bring to light the latent narratives embedded in the objects, materials, and forms that shape our daily lives. Working primarily with industrial materials, found items, and discarded objects gathered from the areas surrounding his exhibitions, he assembles these elements into unusual compositions, hybrid relics and fantastical landscapes, emphasizing the visible effects of time on it, between exhaustion and decay, underscoring their fragility.
“I exist in a vaporous state. I am truly glitter in mid-air.” It is from this place of suspension that Benoît Piéron conceived Shadow Polish. Drawing on his experience of hospitals and living with illness, the French artist creates alternative representations of spaces, bodies and the emotions embedded in them. From hallucinatory waiting rooms and laundromats, to subdued emergency beacons glowing like nightlights and strobes filtering from beneath a hospital door, Benoît Piéron stretches familiar spaces through a practice of appropriation that blends sculpture and installation with techniques drawn from arts and crafts and DIY culture.
“I exist in a vaporous state. I am truly glitter in mid-air.” It is from this place of suspension that Benoît Piéron conceived Shadow Polish. Drawing on his experience of hospitals and living with illness, the French artist creates alternative representations of spaces, bodies and the emotions embedded in them. From hallucinatory waiting rooms and laundromats, to subdued emergency beacons glowing like nightlights and strobes filtering from beneath a hospital door, Benoît Piéron stretches familiar spaces through a practice of appropriation that blends sculpture and installation with techniques drawn from arts and crafts and DIY culture.