About Love: An Offering…

June 21, 2023 Anne Couillaud

“An exhibition is a temporary realization of something that we want to be perceived on a level beyond what
is visible.” [1]

There is a gentleman dressed in his mother’s sari sitting among us. […]

Hemali Bhuta, 10/09/21, 6.33 PM, Indigo on paper, 20 x 25 cm, 2022

I, you, we

October 6, 2019 Anne Couillaud

Markus Hansen. Other People's Feelings are also my Own. 2004 -2015. Video still. Courtesy of the artist. — Markus Hansen.
Other People's Feelings are also my Own. 2004 -2015.
Video still. Courtesy of the artist.

« “Ah! Only a madman would believe that I am not you!” wrote Victor Hugo in the preface to his Contemplations in 1856. A century and a half later, Markus Hansen's photographic series Other People's Feelings Are Also My Own invites us to consider this statement once again, and to give it our full attention. »

Markus Hansen. Other People's Feelings are also my Own. 2004 -2015. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.

Trajectories

October 5, 2019 Anne Couillaud

« Few forms, simple forms, powerful forms: the works of Vincent Lamouroux demonstrate just how uncompromisingly attached to form this artist is. »

Vincent Lamouroux. Néguentropie. 2012. Installation view. Abbaye de Maubuisson, FR. Courtesy of the artist.