Exhibition
Étienne Chambaud. Negative Knots
7 Jun 2018 – 26 Aug 2018
Event times
Wednesday to Friday from 12:00 to 18:00
Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to 18:00
Address
- 16 rue de la Fonderie
- Mulhouse
Grand Est - 68100
- France
This summer 2018, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse hosts Negative Knots , a monographic exhibition by Étienne Chambaud. For this project, the artist builds a device that ties the ruins of a zoo cage and a series of sculptures, collages, paintings and video.
About
Negative Knots is a quasi-fractal exhibition. It is composed of several strata of exhibitions that share the same space or compete for it. Neither a simple sum nor a subtraction of one by the other, they suggest a more complex combination which does not reveal itself a priori. They act as many parallel dimensions, sometimes facing one another, sometimes overlapping, merging or coinciding, creating a common space or conversely mutually excluding one another and coexisting without any shared boundaries.
The main focus of Étienne Chambaud's work is an "Ecology of Separations", an on-going research on frontiers and borders between forms, objects, gestures and discourses. In his work, various spaces, scientific fields, modes of capture, conservation and of transmission merge, overlap or intersect.