group show
curated by Badr Ali & Lucas Morin
from August 23 through 25, 2019, atelier 2031C, Cité internationale des arts, Paris

Nathanaëlle Herbelin · Julie Herry · Kanaria · Adrian Mabileau Ebrahimi Tajadod · Samuel Nicolle · Kristoffer Ørum

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Ominous wires tear up quiet pastoral landscapes. Tragedies unfold where time seems to have stopped, destroying the very possibility of innocence. Forests harbor the darkest secrets and new queer idols arise from the wetlands. To mark the end of his year-long residency at Cité internationale des arts, artist Badr Ali joins forces with curator Lucas Morin to extend a modest invitation to six artists. Some crossed the artist’s path during his Paris stay, others share formal concerns with him. All make use of humor, some of them in an outwardly childlike manner, others with a much darker tone, to express their concerns, fears, and longings. They conjure up swirling knights, 3-D heads, green roses, empty houses, Greek vases, high fences, orange dogs, and ducks dabbling in ponds. Some are naive, others are threatening. Some are intimate and comforting, others echo the cruelest divides of our troubled times.

We would like to thank Bénédicte Alliot & Cité internationale des arts, Cecilia Granara, Tal Engelstein, Philip Tchernavskij, Michael Angland, and Alexandre Ansel.

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