Le salon | “Chambre d'échos, Chapitre I”
Exhibition
27.11.2024 — 21.12.2024
Camille BernardYouri JohnsonAvery Z. NelsonSimon PetepieceAndrei Pokrovskii
Opening
27.11.2024 — 17h
DS Galerie is pleased to present “Chambre d’échos”, a collective proposition in several chapters in thesalon of the gallery in resonance with “Solve & Caogula”, Alison Flora’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Chapter I brings together works by Camille Bernard, Youri Johnson, Avery Z. Nelson, Simon Petepiece & Andrei Pokrovskii.
Camille Bernard’s work offers an ambivalent vision of humanity, in which creatures evolve in a durable but fragile balance, as nature takes its course. These worlds are marked by a vocabulary of forms that are significant in the artist’s work. The rocks, grasses, streams, stems, flowers and humans, who populate her environments, are found throughout her canvases. More info
Youri Johnson is a fiction producer of fictions. His life is made up of poems, theoretical texts, strange objects and more obscure things. It all adds up to a body of work entitled L’art secret de la guerre secrète, fragments of which have been read, published and shown in several exhibitions in France and abroad. More info
After studying at Columbia University in New York, Avery Z. Nelson graduated in 2009. In his painting, Avery Z. Nelson explores bodies as they edge, erupt, and expand. Colors and textures, curves and cuts, body parts melt to become landscapes and monuments to become mere individuals. The non-binary artist creates worlds where the singular contemporary person finds its multitude, its many selves.
Having witnessed the bitterness of isolation, here in their paintings, Avery Z. Nelson creates poetic spaces to hold the depth of mourning and becoming. More info
Simon Petepiece is a self-taught artist who works directly with construction materials and processes. His practice addresses and derives meaning from the symbolic quality of architectural spaces. By artworks that range from and combine sculpture, painting and drawing, he explores how the built environment records and reflects our cultural beliefs, values and history. More info
Graduating from Moscow’s British High School of Art and Design in 2019, Andrei Pokrovskii leaves Russia to settle in London. His artistic practice is primarily concerned with the image of space and the problem of relations with various places - real, mythical and virtual. Recreating the process of attachment to an environment, Andrei constructs a stage of sorts and through the stories on the scene traces the changes in its perception. In this model of space scenery always controls the characters which serve as extensions of the location. More info