<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/om840emqcb6iok8/DP%20Quayola_en.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">VESTIGES</a><br></div>Quayola's solo show at Galerie Charlot Paris<br><br>Opening : March 22 /// Exhibition from March 23 to May 12, 2018.
<br>Galerie Charlot, 47 rue Charlot 75003 Paris, France<br><br><div>Quayola’s first solo show in France features a series of photographic prints from 3D scans, «Remains», and the video «Jardins d’ été #2», which pays homage to French Impressionism. Both works have the gardens of the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire (France) as their main subject.<br><br>Quayola develops a new practice in the tradition of the representation of landscape, which brings the artist’s sensibility in dialogue with the disinterested and objective gaze of the machine.<br>The digital matter with which the spectator is confronted, it is the astonishing result of the impossible encounter between a very complex natural geometry and the inability of the machine to record this incommensurability.<br>What does this imperfection reveal about the relationship of the subject with the nature ? What about the sublime at the time of the Anthropocene?<br><br><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ke9xt7lt1yzyprt/AAALAygC18nLTjt_YTjbAWEFa?dl=0" target="_blank">Press kit</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/149/Quayola-Vestiges" target="_blank">More info</a><br clear="all"></div><div><div><br></div></div>////<br><br><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The prints in Quayola's "Remains" series and his video "Jardins d’été #2" explore a new way of representing the natural landscape along the lines of the pictorial tradition of the late 19th century to early 20th century avant-garde.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Through his 3D scans of trees and plants, flowers and leaves, acquired in the gardens of the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, the artist explores a new practice of landscape representation in which individual sensibility confronts the neutral and objective gaze of the machine.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This interdependence between the artist and his technological equipment is played out in several stages: like an outdoor painter, the artist moves through places of natural interest, equipped with highly sophisticated tools that capture a maximum of data. Data collection on the spot is followed by a phase of photographic work in the studio: an exploration and selection of the digital raw matter that the artist has captured at the source. The often imperfect material with which the spectator is confronted is the astonishing outcome of an impossible encounter between a very complex natural geometry and the inability of the machine to capture this incommensurability.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Quayola's research inhabits this interstice: it’s all about the challenge represented by the limits of the machines that are used to record data. A far cry from the hyperrealism of contemporary visual culture, based on simulacra, Quayola's images gravitate towards abstraction through their internal flaws. What does this aesthetic of dysfunction reveal about the subject's relationship with nature and the world?</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In "Parallel I-IV" the German artist Harun Farocki has suggested that reality will soon cease to be the standard by which we judge the supposedly imperfect image. Instead, the virtual image will become the standard by which we measure the imperfections of reality.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If the painters of modern gardens, from Monet to Kandinsky, from Matisse to Dufy, have used nature and its peaceful and disinterested observation as a means towards the expression of subjective states, this detachment is now compromised by the new paradigm of Anthropocene. In this alternative history of the Earth, marked by the advent of the human species as a geological force that has brought about irreversible changes, "nature is no longer what is embraced from a far away point of view, where the observer could ideally jump to see things “as a whole”, but the assemblage of contradictory entities that have to be composed together " (Bruno Latour, Waiting for Gaia, 2011).</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For centuries literature and philosophy have insisted on the ontological divide between the poles of human and non-human, nature and the subject who is trying to know and dominate it: this insurmountable distance has made possible the feeling of the sublime.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What happens to the sublime in the age of Anthropocene? How can we represent a nature that is no longer incommensurable if, as Hans Blumenberg has suggested, this shipwreck in which life on earth seems to be at stake has “no spectator”?</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In the preliminary stage, Quayola's digital equipment only records 3D points. Later, in the studio, the artist explores and selects different aggregates of the recorded spatial coordinates. It is precisely from this idea of assemblage that we must think, understand and represent the world: as an original and hybrid composition of nature, culture, subjects and objects, human and non-human.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To adapt to this new world, we will need new ideas, new myths, a new conceptual grasp of reality, and therefore a new way of representing it.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This "collaborative survival", will require a world where "science fact and speculative fabulation need each other" (Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble, 2016), a world in which data will only make sense through the filter of art and human sensitivity, and new aesthetics will help us to define reality.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 9px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Valentina Peri, 2018</span></font></p></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ke9xt7lt1yzyprt/AAALAygC18nLTjt_YTjbAWEFa?dl=0" target="_blank">Press kit</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.galeriecharlot.com/en/expo/149/Quayola-Vestiges" target="_blank">More info</a><br clear="all"></div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_8951533092575595814m_-4151079744501886406gmail-m_6762502489239600914gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Valentina Peri<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="tel:+33%206%2033%2095%2056%2093" value="+33633955693" target="_blank">+33 6 33 95 56 93</a><br>---<br></div><div>Galerie Charlot<br></div><div>47 rue Charlot 75003 Paris<br></div><div><a href="mailto:valentina@galeriecharlot.com" target="_blank">valentina@galeriecharlot.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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