After a two-month residency at the Boghossian Brussels Foundation in spring 2019, Simon Deppierraz presents his first solo exhibition in the gallery. During this residency, the artist collected a reservoir of forms linked to Art Nouveau and the richness of facade treatments in Brussels architecture. Two elements have emerged omnipresent, the work of stone and that of metal.
The artist offers an exhibition in two stages. On the one hand, the white cube is put in tension by an in situ intervention; on the other, an aerial sculpture work in the form of a palindrome. The two proposals play with vacuum, gravity and friction. The horizontal and vertical thrusts are opposed but the two propositions use their own weight to hold a system.