Alexandre Lavet
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Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague (NL)
03.09.22 06.11.22
First version

For his second solo exhibition at Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Alexandre Lavet proposed to relocate all the packed artworks from the gallery’s storage to the main exhibition space. By this intervention he allows the audience to enter an environment full of ‘sleeping’ artworks, a moment of stasis, and of anticipation of what is hiding in the crates and bubblewrap.

Behind a closed door, you enter a timeless world where the dust of decades has fallen. The natural light of the exhibition space has been filtered to refinforce the first impression of a space where time has stopped. A dream-like situation that combines the present and dreams.
In some places it resembles the artist’s own bedroom: the walls have the exact same colour and mouldings and even the cling on the entrance door has been replicated.
Amongst multiple artworks by the artist scattered in the middle of this environment are drawn anti-heroes using artworks to rest. A sound piece made of recordings of the artist’s naps is softly diffusing muffled sounds of the outside world in the space to accompany the visitor in this onirogenic journey.


⤷ Essay: ‘A curtain is a door but is a door a curtain?’ by neither
⤷ Essay: ‘Fiat nox’ by neither


Acte n°37 “Change the logo of the exhibition space”, 2022
Altered logo
Dimensions variable
Exhibition view
Avenue Louis Bertrand (door cling), 2022
Bronze
9 x 10 x 17,5 cm
Exhibition view
Nap study, 2018
Wenzhou paper, glue
15 x 43 × 57 cm and 24,5 46 × 54 cm
Exhibition view
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Tsundoku, 2019-2022
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Exhibition view
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
5 x 4 cm
Exhibition view
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Editor’s Letter, 2022
Graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g
20,8 x 14,3 cm
Editor’s Letter, 2022
Graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g
Detail
UN HOMME QUI DORT, 2022
Graphite on folded Awagami Masa 86g, metal plate, magnet
16 × 7,9 cm (drawing), 24 × 18 x 0,8 cm (metal plate)
Exhibition view
Tsundoku, 2019-2022
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Exhibition view
Goede nachtrust, 2022
Color pencil and graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g
18 × 9 × 6 cm (bag), 11 × 6 cm (receipt)
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 4,5 cm
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Exhibition view
O blé d’art, 2019
Colour pencil on Awagami Masa 86g
22,6 × 11,7 × 6 cm
Exhibition view
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
3 x 2,5 cm
Tsundoku, 2019-2022
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Exhibition view
Avenue Louis Bertrand (frieze), 2022
Synthetic plaster
25,2 x 26 x 2,4 cm each
Avenue Louis Bertrand (frieze), 2022
Synthetic plaster
25,2 x 26 x 2,4 cm each
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
2 x 4,5 cm
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
SEMIN RENOV, 2022
Graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g and Awagami Masa 86g
Metal plate, staples, magnet
30 × 23 cm (drawings), 39 × 31 x 0,8 cm (metal plate)
Exhibition view
Tsundoku, 2019-2022
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Exhibition view
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
2,5 x 4 cm
Avenue Louis Bertrand (frieze), 2022
Synthetic plaster
25,2 x 26 x 2,4 cm
Exhibition view
The Real Truth of Mankind, 2018
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 17 cm each
Exhibition view
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 3,5 cm
Exhibition view
Why can’t we sleep, 2022
Fabric: 100% seersucker cotton, OEKO-TEX, piping: 100% linen, buttons: Corozo, made in France, OEKO-TEX
Tailor made in Brussels, August 2022
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 4 cm
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 4 cm
The good side of life, 2022
Graphite on wall
3 x 3 cm
Avenue Louis Bertrand (door cling), 2022
Bronze
9 x 10 x 17,5 cm