Voyage au centre de la terre
Emerige, Paris
Romain Bernini, Jennyfer Grassi, Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, Eva Jospin, Bruno Perramant, Lucie Picandet, Pierre Seinturier
March 2018
Journey to the Center of the Earth proposes an exhibition in the form of an expedition : a wander through the worlds of eight artists artists who have taken possession of a series of former warehouses, hidden behind the gate of 7 rue de Tolbiac, destined to be demolished in a few weeks.
Despite the diversity of their approaches, all have in common a research that tendsn towards the notion of depth, a beyond the mirror that appears progressively in the course of the spaces: landscapes of forests like the gigantic bas-reliefs that could be taken from fantastic tales in Eva Jospin's work; the photoluminescent flowers plunged in the darkness by Jennyfer Grassi like chimeras, up to the paintings of imaginary jungles and other contemporary mythologies by Romain Bernini. Upstairs, in the attic, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige present as many vestiges of the invisible transformations of the subterranean worlds. In the neighboring room, the watercolors of Lucie Picandet take shape like an introspective journey inside her body, and, coiled up at the end of the corridor, Pierre Seinturier reveals his graphic and pictorial universe that camps like an intrigue, a suspense from American detective films or B movies. Finally, the lower floor becomes a vast pictorial dream garden, edge of alleys, inhabited also of strange beings evolving in indeterminate marine funds, created by Bruno Perramant. Utopias, rituals, experiences give rhythm to these various proposals in another space-time, that of the process of creation.
Romain Bernini. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon
Romain Bernini. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon
Eva Jospin. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon
Bruno Perramant. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon
Pierre Seinturier. Voyage au centre de la Terre, 2018, Tolbiac, Emerige, Paris © Éric Simon