‘‘Dead End’’ is an exhibition conceived as a work of fiction, a visual narrative in which painting and sculpture respond to each other. Between Julian Farade and Hélène Labadie, the dialogue is written in space like a story tobe inhabited, where the works become chapters in a work of fiction to be explored.
Farade’s fragmented frieze, hung high up, evokes memories and visions that are distorted into a pictorial storyboard. On the floor, Labadie’s refined sculptures are arranged in grids and patterns, reminiscent of architectural fragments. As a counterpoint to these minimalist pieces, the sculptor introduces figurative forms that open up the narrative field.
The whole can be read as a succession of flashes of memory, where images overlap and blur. Between the paintings high up and the sculptures on the floor, a thread connects the works—the idea of a city through spaceweaving a fragmented narrative between memory and imagination. The relationship between scale is fragmented, both in the subjects painted in Farade’s friezes and in Labadie’s sculptures.
Memories are distorted, heights are inverted. Through the window, a frame seems to appear, giving the sensation of a view of the city within the city.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a text by Pierre Eugène