The Catalyst
a space to ( = )
L’Art de Triomphe
3rd Wave Graduation Show
1st June to 14th July 2024
The Catalyst
Opening Reception: 1st June, 6:30pm
Six months ago, 4 individuals crossed paths in a programme designed to literally take us away from here under the pretext of pursuing the meaning of successful art. Come 1st June 2024 we shall bear witness to the fruits of labour from these fab 4 who have barely survived the Gallic clutches that L’art de Triomphe programme had promised to deliver.
The resulting exhibition is a heterogeneous collective of works that will swerve our attentions to the secret history of the Jesuit order and its influence on modern day systematic removal of privacy in exchange of control; the transmogrification of one’s mental anguish and physical threats in the face of an ongoing real life hate campaign into a source of creative energy, and to reciprocate adversity in the name of art*; the re-examination of one’s own personal identity through over reproduction and factory line serialisation until all trace of distinguishable feature is lost; to turbocharge the blurring of reality and mental perception with the oversaturating, misusing and abusing of everyday technology in an doomed attempt to attain the nirvana.
Their triumphant return show could just be the writing of a relatively new history of art through their broad and eclectic interpretations of these real and present dangers, and seriously calling into question what we have up to now defined and understood as art.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this exhibition are those of the artists and do absolutely and categorically reflect the views and opinions of any entities they represent. Thank you and goodnight.
*THE XEVARION INSTITUTE REGRETS TO INFORM YOU THAT EUNICE TSANG WILL NOT BE TAKING PART IN THE L' ART DE TRIOMPHE DUE TO INEXPLICABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. THERE’S REALLY NOT A LOT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
Our Paris agents & collaborators:
LALE ROUBAUD, BLAISE CARDON-MIENVILLE, EMANUEL SAMPY, MARIE JOSEE PILLET, HELENE BIHERY, GUILLAUME CONSTANTIN, MARIE DUMORA, BANJEE, VALNOIR/ METASTAZIS, MARIJO DECOMBE, PASCALE MIENVILLE, FRANCOIS CARDON
六個月前,四位現役美藝人攜手與3rd Wave涉足巴黎,於凱旋門之下沉思藝術成功之謎。六個月後,六月一日將會是他們在法國大陸飽歷風雨、抵過衝擊、穿過重重迷霧後的L’Art de Triomphe成果發表大會。
是次展覽將會是一場奇思異想的具體演繹:窺探操控現代社會的神秘幕後黑手;在日復一日被人惡意攻擊、精神折磨的生活中所激發的抗衡*;重新尋找在不斷複製和工廠化世界體制下面目全非的自己;質問以濫用日常科技模糊現實與虛擬的界線來獲取的涅槃極樂。四位美藝人異口同聲地對現代藝術經已浮上水面豬籠入水的危機表示極大的憂慮,作為一位創作者,現在要得到成功衝破自我籠牢,規範到底由誰來定奪?
免責聲明:是次展覽中所有意見/看法完全絕非只代表展出藝術家個人立場。
*THE XEVARION INSTITUTE 非常遺憾地宣佈各位街坊,很可惜地EUNICE因難言之隱無法如期參展,有望各位鄉親繼續鼎力支持,向著標竿直跑。