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THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST

THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris
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THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris

Liselor Perez, Big Cat, 2023, ceramic, glaze, cardboard, wood, 160 x 70 x 70 cm, unique

Jacopo Belloni, Vinciola, 2023, silk leaves, alcohol aniline, rice starch, papier mâché, tailor-made wool men’s suits, cotton shirts, zentai lycra suits, bamboo socks, (…), 180 x 50 x 40 cm, unique

THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris

Ceylan Öztrük, Flat Dragon, 2019, medical silicone, cosmetic paint, 117 x 90 cm, unique

Adrian Piper, Bach Whistled, 1970, performance soundtrack, 45'

Jessy Razafimandimby, Bath-Ology, 2023, acrylic on bed sheet, 74.5 x 135 cm, unique

THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris

Andreia Santana, Sea Spider, 2023, glass and chain mail, 197 x 52 x 7 cm, unique

Andreia Santana, Sweaty Chains, 2022, water, glass and chain mail, 260 x 20 x 8 cm, unique

Andreia Santana, Wet Toy, 2022, water, glass and chain mail, 256 x 35 x 7 cm, unique

THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris

Lou Masduraud, Mini Kiss (with many species), 2023, glazed ceramic, shells, Carrara marble, beach pebbles, 7 x 7 x 8 cm, unique

THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris

Ceylan Öztrük, Flat Dragon, 2019, medical silicone, cosmetic paint, 90 x 57 cm, unique

Jacopo Belloni, Benandante, 2023, oxidised copper brazed with tin, silk, alcohol aniline, cotton yarn, dry wild fennel, extract of wild fennel, 100 x 35 x 20 cm, unique

THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST, 2023, exhibition view, Sans titre, Paris

Yuyan Wang, One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, 2020, video HD, 11'30'', edition 3 of 5 + 2 AP

Lou Masduraud, Kiss (without health insurance but an anti-speciesist approach of the mouth as an environment), 2023, glazed ceramic, pink marble, black marble, rocks, sea shells and sea-polished glass, 12 x 12 x 7 cm, unique
“Last summer, while swimming in the sea, a jellyfish grabbed my right arm with her tentacles. She must have swum slowly towards me as the curious and intelligent creature I love to imagine she was. I didn’t notice her body rolling up my arm, brushing over my skin, and darting into my flesh. But I remember clearly that her bite abolished all sensations for a split second.The three rings of red swollen skin on my arm didn’t heal for weeks. For months, the poison would occasionally revive, reenacting the jellyfish’s killing ritual over and over. Almost a year later, the wounds are gone, but the prosthetic phantom limbs are the relics of her fierce existence.They also remind me that life involves contamination, as a form of helpful symbiosis among humans but also with other non-human entities. It’s an archive of relations.
The group exhibition THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST proposes to look at a selection of art practices from the perspective of contamination. When challenging the assumption that contamination involves degradation while looking at it from a non-anthropocentric point of view, it provides an example of exchange and mutual transformation that may defy linear time and verbal communication. Contamination may be understood in this context as an exchange between two or more entities during which their ordinary status is challenged and destabilised. THE CUP OF WATER THAT GIVES ITSELF TO THIRST further proposes to reflect on the notion of contamination from an epistemological and relational perspective, particularly within the field of exhibition- making. It celebrates the mutual (conceptual, physical) contamination that is inevitably at play when images, objects, and participants share space and proposes to look at the group exhibition as a space of shared intimacy.”
Elise Lammer