until Saturday June 01 2013
Galerie Xippas
T : + 33 (0)1 40 27 05 55
108, rue vieille du temple
75003 Paris
France
Xippas Gallery is happy to present to Sigismond de Vajay’s first solo exhibition in Paris.
Unreachable Empires, a group of ninety-nine drawings that will appear in a book with the same name at the end of 2013. After his previous series, Nouveaux Désastres, also the subject of a publication, Vajay describes a solemn and gloomy world where he subtlety and poetically depicts social differences and irregularities, authority and global control, and the systems that govern the planet.
Opaque, somber, and intriging, “La légerté de la matière” acts as a central piece: we see a black, shiny rectangle as tall as a man with smoke enclosed inside it. It functions as a a mirror, a metaphor for our world, and a contemporary allegory of the platonic cave.
The carefully crafted object’s glimmering image gently confronts the dissolution of the intangible contents, creating a game of contradictions. On its pedestal, we see a bin of rubble – a universal element that evokes.
