Archive 2021 KubaParis

LANA CAVE

Apologize, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, graphite on paper, 60x100cm, 2021
Apologize, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, graphite on paper, 60x100cm, 2021
Discovering where the limit is, we dance around its body, graphite on paper,  22x29cm, 2021
Discovering where the limit is, we dance around its body, graphite on paper, 22x29cm, 2021
Frisk, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 20x100cm, 2021
Frisk, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 20x100cm, 2021
Do you hear?, intervention with graphite, site-specific installation, 2021 Cristals (embryos), cristal salt on paper, 14x21cm, 2021
Do you hear?, intervention with graphite, site-specific installation, 2021 Cristals (embryos), cristal salt on paper, 14x21cm, 2021
Bind, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, graphite on paper, 60x100cm, 2021
Bind, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, graphite on paper, 60x100cm, 2021
Try, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 86x100cm, 2021
Try, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 86x100cm, 2021
Love, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 60x100cm, 2021
Love, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 60x100cm, 2021
time, silence, attention, graphite on paper, 27x37cm, 2020 Do you hear?, intervention with graphite, site-specific installation, 2021
time, silence, attention, graphite on paper, 27x37cm, 2020 Do you hear?, intervention with graphite, site-specific installation, 2021
LANA CAVE, sound, 18min, 2021
LANA CAVE, sound, 18min, 2021
Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Montrose, intervention with sea water, site-specific installation, 2021
Montrose, intervention with sea water, site-specific installation, 2021

Location

Sissi CLub

Date

21.02 –06.03.2021

Curator

Elise Poitevin + Anne Vimeux

Photography

Aur&lien

Subheadline

LANA CAVE transforms the exhibition place into a symbolic space, mystifying anal ejaculation.

Text

Through a process with which the goal is not to exhibit on, but inside the walls, Aurélien Potier soaks the space with sea water collected at the Montrose - a cruising gay spot in Marseilles. The salt cristals reveal the preciosity of this "sacred water", crossing bodies’ thresholds. The walls are scrubbed, scratched, darkened with a nervous writing, almost illegible that is not without recalling acts of subjection, assignations to hysteria. The artist here invoques the right for emancipation, pleasure, orgasm. Building links between inside and outside space, articulating his gesture between two antagonistic mediums - ink and water - he questions the ways knowledge can be transmitted, and pours all over a message that will only be clarified through orality. His voice resounds in all the rooms as the music, variating between crystalling and smothered sounds, steps in as a desire for love : "Later my hand was inside his body, all I wanted was to reach his heart and grab it. My head was insanely clear, I never was this close to nothing." This exhibition follows up to a eponymous publication released in autumn 2020 in Marseilles.