Louise Assouly, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Louise Belin, Nelson Bourrec Carter, Juana Bustamante Jeanne Champenois-Masset, Aliki Christoforou, Roxane Daguet, Kenny Dunkan, Romeo Gómez López, Angeline Guzman, Sarah Juin, Luca Nuvolone, Nelson Pernisco, Prune Perris, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Florian Pugnaire, Vivien Roubaud, Lola Roy-Cassayre , Justine Salamin, Dunya Savilova, Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya, tanz, Pierre Touré Cuq, Maxime Vignaud, Joseph Winckler
La constellation de Monsieur S’ is not an exhibition about ghosts or about death. Instead, it is shaped as a
kaleidoscope of ineffable presences. It investigates what, in our time, is still operating without being fully named or
acknowledged. It might be the delicate beauty of ruins, a nostalgic fondness for imaginary architectures, or the infinity
of the cosmos, this contemporary terra incognita towards which so many faiths point their disembodied spirits. But
there are also digital ghosts, those bodiless but not powerless avatars who haunt online networks and speeches,
sometimes with perfidy. Or the silent deaths caused by the logic of late capitalism, and erased by it. The final room is
devoted to rituals and the care of bodies, whether dead, alive or both at once, as extraneous bodies that cannot be
explained despite the concerted efforts of the sciences.
‘La constellation de Monsieur S’ is a polyphony of silent voices, a maelstrom of past absences, a sedimentation
of inconspicuous signs. This exhibition is as many possibilities for Monsieur S to exist, to manifest himself, or to be
seen, on the condition that someone is willing to look for him. Ariane, the medium, was adamant: Monsieur S is not
hostile. He becomes everything that resists explanation, everything that the eye avoids, everything that contemporary
thought has relegated to the outskirts. In a time when uncertainty structures the zeitgeist, when the anxiety of
fuzziness coexists with the obsession of proof, Monsieur S reminds us that there will always remain areas of opacity
that no knowledge can compensate for.
It is not necessary to believe in ghosts to recognise the power of all that is beyond the reach of the mind. It’s
sufficient to admit that certain presences are operative, disrupting and unsettling. The exhibition seeks neither to
demonstrate nor to convince: it opens up a space for those who are willing to doubt, to seek without finding. Perhaps it
is here, in this suspended attention, in this fertile discomfort, that Monsieur S will finally find a little distraction: by
observing those who, in front of him, accept that they can no longer control everything.
Andy Rankin
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Thursday to Saturday from 13:00-19:00
Av. Van Volxem 333, 1190 Forest
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Galerie Eric Mouchet mainly represents young contemporary artists with a forward-looking approach, whose research subjects are geopolitics, sociology, ecology, society and gender issues, without limitation of media or form. The gallery also benefits from an expertise in the historical French and German avant-gardes, which offers possibility of confrontations and interconnections between the art of the 20th century and the living art of today. In 2022, the gallery has opened a new venue in Brussels, in partnership with Galerie Martin Kudlek (Cologne) and Patrick Heide Contemporary Art (London).