Room with some views. Interlude. is an exhibition designed as a meantime, a between-place. Two rooms for a situation playing with the Bataille’s notion of eroticism: the approval of life into death. The first room quite explicitly evokes a tomb: a perfectly symmetrical and orderly arrangement. The second room displays two sculptures which look like seats (or stones, or graves) placed in front of a curtain of red satin. This set is somewhere between an antechamber, a funeral room, a theater stage, a backroom.
A place deprived of natural light, a blind scene, which perhaps has to be activated. Maybe we are arriving too early, maybe too late. The red curtain is decorated with a tear-like pattern and a suggestive drawing inspired by André Masson. On the other side stands a strange metallic figure, wearing in a scarf. It might be the key of an enigma, the right accessory to break the code. On the wall: some ceramic black screens decorated with organic stains. They are quite sensual surrealist appropriations.
An installation of chains and flowers definitely eroticises the exhibition: an odd game between death, inward, surface, flesh.
— Waterworks, Gradhiva. Silkscreen on fabric, in situ, 520xH230cm, 2018.
Room with some views. Interlude. was exhibited in Outside Our, Emerige Prize 2018 show. From 01.09.18 to 14.10.18 @ Villa Emerige, Paris. Curator : Gaël Charbau. Pictures : Hugo L’ahelec, Rebecca Fanuelle.