Crisis. Against appearances
04.12.08 > 24.01.09
Opening : 04.12.08, 20h.

Geffriaud’s works allude to the compartmentalized and arbitrary nature of institutional processes and cultural transmission. His pieces borrow elements from such entities but their particular dynamic provokes cognitive processes that subvert them. The misunderstanding, the shuffle, the lucid, the super-position, these tropes are the critical tools that the artist deposits in the hands of the observer, championing a more lax understanding regarding the association of knowledge. Geffriaud has had individual shows at the gallery GB agency and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has shown in group exhibitions such as the Lyon Biennial (France) or in the center of contemporary art Nicolaj in Copenhagen (Denmark).

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Herbarium | 2 slide projectors and pages framed in Plexiglas.
Herbarium is a reflection on the institutionalization of culture and the task of cataloguing knowledge. Using what could be considered a paradigmatic example of an archiving task: the herbarium, the spectator’s attention is directed towards the illuminated reverse of the pages. In this manner, it emphasizes what selection processes and hierarchies devalue: all those things that disappear for lacking institutional worth. A compartmentalized vision of culture is juxtaposed with the artistic intention to achieve the dissolution of the borders between categories.