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
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Dimensions variable
Bronze
9 x 10 x 17,5 cm
Wenzhou paper, glue
15 x 43 × 57 cm and 24,5 46 × 54 cm
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Graphite on wall
5 x 4 cm
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g
20,8 x 14,3 cm
Graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g
Detail
Graphite on folded Awagami Masa 86g, metal plate, magnet
16 × 7,9 cm (drawing), 24 × 18 x 0,8 cm (metal plate)
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Color pencil and graphite on folded Awagami Silk Pure White 62g
18 × 9 × 6 cm (bag), 11 × 6 cm (receipt)
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 4,5 cm
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Colour pencil on Awagami Masa 86g
22,6 × 11,7 × 6 cm
Graphite on wall
3 x 2,5 cm
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Synthetic plaster
25,2 x 26 x 2,4 cm each
Synthetic plaster
25,2 x 26 x 2,4 cm each
Graphite on wall
2 x 4,5 cm
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 12 cm each
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)
Varnish, toner transfer, gesso, carved plywood
Dimensions variable
Graphite on wall
2,5 x 4 cm
Synthetic plaster
25,2 x 26 x 2,4 cm
Synthetic plaster, toner transfer, magnets
0,5 x 6 × 17 cm each
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 3,5 cm
Fabric: 100% seersucker cotton, OEKO-TEX, piping: 100% linen, buttons: Corozo, made in France, OEKO-TEX
Tailor made in Brussels, August 2022
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 4 cm
Graphite on wall
3,5 x 4 cm
Graphite on wall
3 x 3 cm
Bronze
9 x 10 x 17,5 cm