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YANNICK DE SERRE | TERGIVERSER VERS LE VIDE

YANNICK DE SERRE | TERGIVERSER VERS LE VIDE

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In "Tergiverser vers le vide" and "Behind Closed Doors: Body of Evidence", Yannick De Serre and Natascha Niederstrass respectively highlight the notion of rupture, staging and questioning its most irrational, violent and moving ways. Of course, each artist gives this brutal act of separation their own narrative form. In broaching the unacceptable, Natascha Niederstrass slyly prompts discomfort with a surrealistic proposal that links the macabre facts of the Black Dahlia with Marcel Duchamp’s last work Étant donnés : 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage (1946-1966). As for Yannick De Serre, he captures the weight of absence and emptiness in a delicate and poetic manner, using the theme of departure as inspiration.

For Yannick De Serre, the object of the rupture is in presencia. At the heart of the exhibition Tergiverser vers le vide, there is a pruner, a horticultural tool for pruning. This object is what gave creative impulse to the project. A few years ago, the artist asked his entourage, people more or less close to him, to send him letters answering the question: “What would you leave on the table to explain your departure?”

2018-01-20
Quartier des spectacles Montreal, Quebec