JENNIFER ROSE SCIARRINO & MARION WAGSCHAL | BUT BOTH ARE SENSITIVE

From May 9 to June 15, 2019.

I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round and real than pearls are. But both are sensitive. - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969.

Projet Pangée is delighted to present “But both are sensitive,” an exhibition instigating a dialogue between the sculptural work of Jennifer Rose Sciarrino and the drawing practice of Marion Wagschal. This presentation strives to emphasize the aesthetic and conceptual affinities that connect two artists from different generations and distinct formal allegiances. Here, both Sciarrino and Wagschal depict life’s peculiar instances, where reality seems to collapse; where life feels stranger than fiction. While the first devotes her attention to a world invisible to the naked eye, magnifying the surreal attributes of microscopic organisms, the second juxtaposes historical and autobiographical elements, giving shape to a sublimated, quasi-mythological form of femininity. Perceptively, this rendezvous between the two artists reveal their common embrace of a fantastical yet sensitive realism.

Opening on Thursday May 9, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.