PRESS RELEASE
CRUMBLING THE ANTISEPTIC BEAUTY
MAY 7 – JULY 13, 2024
PERNOD RICARD FOUNDATION, PARIS
Artists’ practice is far from being as solitary as we sometimes imagine. If the studio is a privileged space for thinking and producing, it is also a place of passage, of stimulation, that lives to the rhythm of the encounters and exchanges that take place there. Although creation is predominantly individual, it owes a great deal to these collective manifestations which, throughout an artistic career, maintain the work in its liveliest form, porous to the multiplicities it encounters. This carte blanche given to David Douard, best known for his sculptures and installations that conjure up the altered forms of language, reflects the way in which an artist evolves with his peers – between reciprocal influence and fascination for the other’s vocabulary. Invited for the first time as curator, David Douard presents a group show for the Fondation Pernod Ricard conceived as a total environment, which, through a variety of media and aesthetics, provides information on the way in which a sensibility is continually constructed.
Collective exhibition with Clémentine Adou, Marie Angeletti, Grichka Commaret, Guillaume Dénervaud, Pascal Doury, Garance Früh, Gabriele Garavaglia, Isa Genzken, Morag Keil, Benjamin Lallier, Mélody Lu, James Richards and Pascale Theodoly.
Curated by David Douard