#83

Nicolas Boulard
MONDE ACTUEL
03/11/2024 - 21/12/2024
solo show

opening Sunday 03/11/2024,

 

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The Monde Actuel (Actual World) is a paradox.
The world, as a physical space, is actual. It is time passing. The sentence is ambiguous. Which world are we talking about? Actual in what context? What are the parameters of the world’s actuality? The world that is being made, that is happening.
The world, being made, is no longer actual. Its actuality disappeared the moment it was evoked.
We’d have to freeze the world, or rather a fragment of it, a portion, freeze in its actuality, to keep a trace, an instant, a moment. But which world? And what moment?

The actual world is that which takes place in the here and now. Without interface, without vector. What’s happening.
The actual world is made up of space and time, two inseparable entities according to Albert Einstein who, to support his theory of relativity, took as his model a whole loaf of bread cut into slices: the loaf is space, the slice is time. The slice is a fragment of the present, a portion of time. And this instant is itself composed of a superposition of times. The slicing is infinite.
Actual world is an ongoing process, a space that contains others. An organic mechanism that never stops. Materials that come alive, expand, dilate and contract, and elements that mix and cohabit to produce new forms.
Organisms work their way through matter, parasitizing it to modify its structure, to create a new context, a new situation, a new process that leads to yet another.
Here, we observe these movements, these recognizable forms, these identifiable fragments, in the unstable structures that make up the actual world.

Ambiguity is recurrent in the artworks exhibited. It’s a play on the obvious, and on the forms used.
We find here particular assemblages between art-historical references and organic materials produced by fermentation.
The Monde Actuel exhibition brings together recent and never shown works. Here, forms are fleeting and changing.
In the gallery space, a bust model displays a leather jacket with the exhibition title: Monde Actuel, the perfect anagram for Claude Monet.