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Vincent Mauger
Structures et décadences
solo show
09/11 – 20/12/2025
Opening Sunday 09/11, 3 pm - 7 pm

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22,48 m² presents Structures et décadences, Vincent Mauger's first solo show at the gallery. It's a deep dive into a universe where the strictness of shapes and systems encounters the dizzying chaos of disorder and transformation. Using bricks, cinder blocks, and other building modules, Vincent Mauger creates works that question our relationship to structure, control, and space. These materials, designed to build a rational, stable, and predictable world, become in his hands fragments of an unstable, open, and changing landscape. His sculptures replay the organizational and classification principles that shape our societies: blocks, grids, frames. They bring to mind systems that, by simplifying reality, end up locking it in. By repurposing these standardized materials, Vincent Mauger creates forms that hover between architecture and ruin, between construction and collapse.

The pieces in the exhibition appear as the remains of a built world, or perhaps the beginnings of another to come. They offer spaces to explore, open structures where thoughts can be projected anew.
These fragments, these “mental frameworks,” invite us to rethink our models of representation and control of territory—whether physical, symbolic, or conceptual.

Between rigor and excess, Structures et décadences explores this paradox: our need for structure and control versus our desire for horizons and freedom. In a world overloaded with buildings, Vincent Mauger suggests reopening perspectives, allowing emptiness to emerge as a potential space, as a condition for renewal.

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