The selection of works brought forward are a contemporary perception of our present. It looks at a paradox in which the future is setting us in. Where do we place ourselves on the red alert of our disappearing ecosystem, the fragility of our beings, the over consumed materiality of our built society. Which is our choice on our common dreams ? And how do we act open a distant universe ? This uncertainty future has always been a quest of the balance, the exchange of position between utopia and dystopia. It is questions that are constantly knocking on the back of our mind as if the world reminds you of its existence.

In the first theme, Earth reveals a fragile weight. A mortal hand touching the soil seems to leave disfigurements that can’t reconcile with nature’s instinctive cycle. The exploitation of resources through the ongoing fast burning industry drives artists to react using an organic and conscious language. Carcasses and remnants becomes the reflection of our societal actions. And through these motions we notice a frail existence as a path in need of a fertilizer to enable its survival.

In the second, Sky surpasses our sense of touch, a feeling of the beyond, a star that we only see flying. A sensation of the unattainable can be triggered by the techniques and superficiality of certain materials and ideas. The intangibility of air and light, similar to our will to grasp an alternative life in the universe questions time and possibilities.  Artists additionally question the notion of our doomed paradise as a consequence on our limitation to reach utopia without disrupting our ecosystem. We see a superficial approach to the choices our doubts raise, materials blur us in a trajectory of knowledge and leave an insight of the beyond.

Step by step, we seem to get closer to the notion of future but here this future resembles a Horizon in which our boat might just fall from the cascade as if our planet was still flat of doubt and wonders.
Will the clock stop Ticking at the Horizon?

Artists: Stéphane Abitbol, Antoinette D’Ansembourg, Loucia Carlier, Chiao Chan Chun, Miles Greenberg, Agata Ingarden, Marc Leschelier, Ale Mangindaan, Leo Orta, Marta Spagnoli, Simon Villard & Julie Brossard.

Collection of Frédéric de Goldschmidt: Stéphane Abitbol, Antoinette D’Ansembourg, Loucia Carlier, Chiao Chan Chun, Miles Greenberg, Agata Ingarden, Marc Leschelier, Ale Mangindaan, Leo Orta, Marta Spagnoli, Simon Villard & Julie Brossard.