Marais, Paris
Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?
Patrick SeguinEd Atkins, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Karl Holmqvist, Jonathan Horowitz, Arthur Jafa, Alex Katz, Mark Leckey, Rob Pruitt, Steven Shearer, Sturtevant, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others For the 13th edition of the Carte Blanche exhibition series, Galerie Patrick Seguin has invited Gavin Brown’s enterprise (NY) which will present the exhibition “Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?” whose title refers to a 1956 collage by Richard Hamilton. This exhibition brings together a group of artworks that question their domestic use value, (or lack thereof). By presenting a group of pieces with indeterminate domestic use, the gallery space will double as a living space and as a theater for somewhat undefinable social behaviors. The exhibition will create a mise en abime that will examine the philosophical, psychological and spiritual implications that are inferred from the collision of the exhibition space and living space. The home is a collection of repositories, everyday ephemera charged with existential and poetic meaning. Quotidian objects become signifiers, their functional value replaced with an expressive and spiritual one. A home is altered by every encounter with an ‘outside’ world, as it does not exist without social exchange, and will reflect the broad political turmoil of our time. The ‘home’ is a living metaphor for one’s mind – a larger and contested idea of home. For whom and by whom. It is a personal indoor and simultaneously outdoor space, an echo of an inner-psyche. It is the private made public.