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Jean-Baptiste Caron
23/05/2025 - 19/07/2025
LES FORCES EN PRÉSENCE
solo show
Opening Sunday 25/05/2025
curated by Henri Guette

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For Paris Gallery Week-end 2025, 22,48 m² is inaugurating Les Forces en Présence, Jean-Baptiste Caron's sixth solo exhibition in the gallery space.

For this new exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Caron continues his exploration of the invisible phenomena that shape the world, revealing, through the prism of sculpture and installation, a silent cosmogony where matter and the intangible enter into tension.

Curated by Henri Guette, the exhibition unfolds as a subtle dialogue between gravity and lightness, stability and precariousness, the visible and the imperceptible.

The artist excels in the art of materialising the invisible. His works do more than simply depict natural and cosmic forces; they capture their essence, making them almost tangible. By exposing the traces of telluric forces or revealing the fragility of breath. His work is part of a poetics of the threshold, where balance is always in abeyance. Each sculpture acts as a physical and sensory experience, confronting the viewer with that which both transcends and traverses us.

Far from being a scientific demonstration or a purely formal exercise, the exhibition orchestrates a ballet of instabilities in which matter confronts its own limits. Jean-Baptiste Caron stages moments of tilt and uncertainty, where beginning and end merge, where inertia and movement interpenetrate. In this way, his works do not give themselves away immediately: they reveal themselves over time, through the attention of the viewer, through the acceptance of a necessary wait.

Forces en Présence doesn't just document the invisible; it invites us to experience it, to feel its discreet, elusive power, while confronting the forces that run through us and shape us. It's a way of putting the senses to the test, allowing us to question our own relationship with the world.​