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 » A press release usually greets the viewer with the wrong hand. By immediately setting the exhibition in an artificial landscape of references, concepts and analysis, it awkwardly takes its distance from it. Most of the time it euphemizes the conditions of the exhibition’s making and neutralizes the discussions and questions which sparked during its conception, in order to offer an image of self-evidence. »

The « non human » instantly conjures up anything and everything that seems to contradict or destroy the idea of human, it brings forth images of robots, bionic prostheses, extra-terrestrials, every manner of chimaera, but also monsters that are too human, which humanity seems to produce so naturally.

Curated by Neïl Beloufa on the occasion of CHOICES Collectors Weekend.

Exhibition curated by Mihnea Mircan, curator.

“There was the wall, then the canvas, moving beyond the canvas, and, in so doing, returning to the wall, the canvas painted the same color as the wall on which it hangs… »

This winter, the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard is presenting Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil’s first personal exhibition in a Parisian institution. On this occasion, the artist is to show brand new pieces. The event coincides with another exhibition of Auguste-Dormeuil’s work at the Mac-Val (Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne)*.

With this rather diverse assemblage of pieces, Mathieu Mercier has composed an exhibition that sheds new light on his work.

* « she’s the greatest thing that ever came out of Brazil, outside a nut »