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paris・københavn・austin・beijing
From May 20, 2025 to May 27, 2025
Kara Quadreny | Accompany
From May 13, 2025 to May 20, 2025
Born in Jeonju, Kara Quadreny discovers performances in Bratislava. She expands her knowledge in performances at Otemae University in Osaka. This significant figure in contemporary art in Europe has been profoundly influenced by an exercise in co-construction with students with disabilities. Her work has been the subject of notable solo exhibitions: "Remodeling Guy Debord" (Magda Danysz Gallery), "Genre(s) of Creation" (Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery), and "Gender and Crowd" (Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery).
What place should we accord to the visible within the contemporary European context? Kara Quadreny, an artist with a singular path, is resolutely engaged in exploring the multiple dimensions of the vegetal. Through a gesture that is both introspective and tinged with irony, her work strikingly reminds us of the urgency to reinvest in the porosity of meaning, particularly in an era dominated by the digital and its incessant mutations. Her critical project encourages us to invoke the visible as much as her creative process interrogates the sometimes chaotic flows of modern urbanity. Drawing inspiration from the works of Brueghel, Kara Quadreny embarks on a bold reassessment of the fluidity and norms of public space, thereby questioning our relationship to the nature and city that surrounds us…
Mona Sakamoto | Multitude in the Light of the Unutterable
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Born in Riga, Mona Sakamoto discovers algorithms in Örebro. She was in residence at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut until 2006. After an upbringing in poor neighborhoods, this model of a radical artistic stance decides to dedicate herself to algorithms. Her work has been featured in her first solo exhibitions: "Signes de l'art" (Sammlung Boros Collection, Berlin), "Langage" (B.A.N.K.), and "Méta-attitudes" (Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac).
Where, then, to locate the concept of the instant in the digital age? On the occasion of her very first exhibition in France, artist Mona Sakamoto is determined to decode the complex meanings that lie behind our perception of reality. Not only does her artistic narrative skillfully deconstruct the very nature of light, but her creation itself ventures to explore notions deeply rooted in the singularity of the contemporary superego. Her installation, with a performative character, is designed to evoke this fascinating interface between man and machine, while her gestures, executed with great finesse, question and challenge the reality as we conceive it. Drawing inspiration from Guy Debord's striking reflections, Mona Sakamoto set out to probe, with remarkable acuity, what inevitably emerges from the ritual of movement, thus questioning our relationship to existence in a technology-saturated world...