Le salon | “tresser”
Exhibition
17.10.2024 — 16.11.2024
Jimmy Beauquesne
Omar Castillo Alfaro
David Weishaar
Opening
17.10.2024 — 17h
“tresser” brings together recent works by artists Jimmy Beauquesne, Omar Castillo Alfaro and David Weishaar in the gallery’s salon.
To braid is to intertwine in the same way as we make garlands of flowers, to welcome and celebrate the other person. For this immersive exhibition, Omar Castillo Alfaro is presenting a group of sculptures from his ‘Naab’ project. In Mayan, ‘naab’ means ‘flower’. In Mesoamerica, several centuries after Christ, there was a school of painters who signed their work with flowers; ‘naab’ is a ritual symbol between two worlds, the terrestrial and the aquatic.
To braid is to connect and pass. To pass from one to another by creating a link. Braiding also means knotting. To tie a friendship, the word is not in vain, the love of friends is a knot, a regular and solid series of knots that allows us to tie up. In his paintings, David Weishaar takes his characters (himself or others) into nocturnal worlds referenced from fantastic or gothic universes. Stories of group, of entourage, of friendship as much as of chosen family.
To braid is about forging links, experimenting and practising, with friendships as a refuge. Braiding, to make stronger: an act of resistance. Jimmy Beauquesne’s drawings on curtain and on paper seem to come from a form of magical realism. The intimate and the pop-culture, the ornamental and the science-fictional are all intertwined. The intertwining of his features creates confusion.
“tresser” as a figure of three, forming one and remaining three.
Jimmy Beauquesne (1991, France) is a graduate of ENSAAMA in Paris and the École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole (DNSEP, 2017). He lives and works in Paris, where his drawing and installation practice hybridizes intimate spaces, mass culture, ornamentation and science fiction. More info
Omar Castillo Alfaro (1991, Mexico) draws inspiration from the know-how of his native region to question the link between art and craft, the narratives associated with it and its reception within the current European art scene. His research, like the materials and forms in his work, contributes to a decolonial reading of art history, generating a new register in his immersive installations. More info
David Weishaar (1987, France) graduated from the University of Strasbourg (2009) and the ECAL–Ecole Cantonale d’Arts et de Design de Lausanne (2013). Favouring the portrait genre as his main means of expression, David Weishaar chooses his models from among people with whom he has a strong relationship, either of friendship or of admiration for their activism or commitment.Through his pictorial work, David Weishaar attempts to deconstruct and make visible the relationship to plural identities. More info