Cayenne de julien quentel

Exhibition Cayenne by julien quentel

Curator: Franck Balland

Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil

Exhibition vis­ible by appoint­ment from 11.06 to 10.07:
paulineper­plex­e@g­mail.com or 06 67 28 86 97

"I would like not to lock this exhi­bi­tion into any kind of mood through my words. I hate it, these exhi­bi­tion texts full of emo­tions, which over­play with great effect what should be played out else­where. I hate it almost as much as I hate it when people tell me what to see, or rather, what to under­stand through what I see - as if that were the ques­tion, or the issue, in short, the goal.
So we can stick to a few stable pieces of infor­ma­tion: the exhi­bi­tion is called Cayenne: it’s the name of the garage owner’s dog, right next to the house. It is also the name of a city, a luxury car and a pepper. Four sculp­tures of dif­ferent nature and scale are installed there. They don’t seem to have any par­tic­ular rela­tion­ship with the ele­ments listed above, but if you feel like bringing them out, nobody will judge you. Without going into too much detail, you will notice that the space (the place as a whole, what links or dis­tances the pieces to each other, or to us) has been treated with con­sid­er­a­tion - this is an impor­tant aspect of the artist’s prac­tice. For the rest, I like that his pieces always defeat what one might want to say about them. I think this is because they are rel­a­tively poor. To the fact that they are seen without any arti­fice, but per­haps not without mod­esty.
I don’t want to let my reading con­tam­i­nate the end of this text, but it is obvious that in this bal­ance, some­thing upsets me."
Franck Balland

Portfolio of the exhi­bi­tion

view from the exhibition, cayenne, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, 2022. Photo: julien quentel

Quelque chose mal foutu, qui a à voir avec la cécité, à moins d’être exposé à une vive lueur. cayenne, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, 2022. Photo: julien quentel