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Les Forces en Présence, exhibition view, 22,48 m², Romainville, FR
Les Forces en Présence, exhibition view, 22,48 m², Romainville, FR
Les Forces en Présence, exhibition view, 22,48 m², Romainville, FR
Les Forces en Présence, exhibition view, 22,48 m², Romainville, FR
By appointment only, 2025 Marble, dust 23,62 x 15,75 x 0,79 inches
Details By appointment only, 2025 Marble, dust 23,62 x 15,75 x 0,79 inches
Passage, (série) 2025 Plaster, minerals 2,75 x 1,37 x 1,18 inches
Passage, (série) 2025 Plaster, minerals 2,75 x 1,37 x 1,18 inches
Passage, (série) 2025 Plaster, minerals 4,33 x 4,33 x 1,57 inches
Passage, (série) 2025 Plaster, minerals 3,54 x 2,75 x 2,75 inches
Corps céleste, 2024 Glass, marble, water 16 x 16 x 16 inches
Details Corps céleste, 2024 Glass, marble, water 16 x 16 x 16 inches
Details Corps céleste, 2024 Glass, marble, water 16 x 16 x 16 inches
Reality is what I come up against, 2023 Neon, cables, transformer 73,6 x 10,2 inches
Details Reality is what I come up against, 2023 Neon, cables, transformer 73,6 x 10,2 inches
Du rien naît tout, 2025 Wood, rock 35,43 x 35,43 x 4,92 inches
Details Du rien naît tout, 2025 Wood, rock 35,43 x 35,43 x 4,92 inches
Details Du rien naît tout, 2025 Wood, rock 35,43 x 35,43 x 4,92 inches
L’instant modèle l’éternité #2, 2025 Egg, tempered glass 78,74 x 55,11 x 2,36 inches
Details L’instant modèle l’éternité #2, 2025 Egg, tempered glass 78,74 x 55,11 x 2,36 inches
Details L’instant modèle l’éternité #2, 2025 Egg, tempered glass 78,74 x 55,11 x 2,36 inches
Le grand sommeil, 2025 Wax, minerals 7,09 x 5,12 x 3,15 inches
Details Le grand sommeil, 2025 Wax, minerals 7,09 x 5,12 x 3,15 inches
La constante éternelle, 2025 Rock, speaker, geophone, raspberry PI, SD card, internet cable, amplifier Approx. 11,02 x 15,75 x 12,60 in.
Details La constante éternelle, 2025 Rock, speaker, geophone, raspberry PI, SD card, internet cable, amplifier Approx. 11,02 x 15,75 x 12,60 in.
La bibliothèque des respirations, 2025 Wood, glass, sandstone, aluminum, bronze, brass, plaster 31,5 x 21,65 x 3,35 inches
Details La bibliothèque des respirations, 2025 Wood, glass, sandstone, aluminum, bronze, brass, plaster 31,5 x 21,65 x 3,35 inches
Details La bibliothèque des respirations, 2025 Wood, glass, sandstone, aluminum, bronze, brass, plaster 31,5 x 21,65 x 3,35 inches
Le plan d'ensemble, poem written by Henri Guette, design by Nathan Rousseau
Le plan d'ensemble, (edition) poem written by Henri Guette, design by Nathan Rousseau
Le plan d'ensemble, (edition) poem written by Henri Guette, design by Nathan Rousseau
The curator Henri Guette with the artist Jean-Baptiste Caron
L’Espace d’un instant, 2016 Cast iron 5 x 4.7 x 4.3 inches
Le tempo des profondeurs, 2024 Mirror, anti-fog treatment 11,81 x 9,84 inches
Attraction #2, 2024 Marble, water 1,3 x 2,5 inches
Le Minuit des mondes, 2015 Black crystal, anti-fog treatment 17,3 x 11,8 x 1,9 inches
View of our showroom, 22,48 m², Romainville, FR
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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
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.