CAUTÈRE

Cautery, Chemical or physical agent used to destroy tissue, facilitate healing or achieve local hemostasis to stop bleeding.

Throughout their films, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel deploy a vital energy, embracing rebellion and melancholy, rage and gentleness. This contradiction is most often felt through sensitive characters who are unsatisfied with the conditions imposed on existence. Children of rejection, supporters of what can only be understood through sensations, the two artists have the romantic fiber, the fierce one of riddled hearts, facing a standardized society. For their first monographic exhibition, they have chosen three of their videos to which is added an eclectic body of work by other artists who carry the same incandescence. If the angels have long since burned their wings and no longer know how to fly, there remains a raw poetry that lets suns appear in the night, like urgent signs that beauty persists, in unusual forms. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel thus produce sparks in the heart of residential areas with their dilapidated monotony, but also in the countryside polluted by Kinder packaging, and even on the surface of the Mediterranean where a Greek fire becomes a hallucinatory motif. In fact, their art is a way of cauterizing the wounds that all the rebels of the neon god receive raw. Their films are therefore burns that act as bandages since they are capable of healing the pains, doubts and fears that can animate youth, confronted with the fury of the times.

Avec Hanna Antonsson
Jason Dodge
Claire Fontaine
Kamilya Kuspanova
Sybil Montet
Yung Nihilist
Alessandro De Pesci
Alessandro Di Pietro
David Rappeneau
Emma Stern
Cajsa Von Zeipel