Image: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Institut d'Art Contemporain

Exhibition view: Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, 2019
Photo © Teresa Estrada

Exhibitions
February 20, 2019

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Institut d'Art Contemporain

Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané intends to totally and profoundly transform the space of the IAC. And so, the path of the exhibition, Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, generates new vanishing lines. Defined by a sensitive geometry, driven only by rays of natural light that penetrate the gloom, it encourages exploration and groping and fumbling. 

This path through the exhibition also translates the artist’s fascination for the notion of dissolution of the self in its surroundings. By placing all of these relationships in space, the artist provides us with a sharp and critical tool: “if there are no more subjects nor objects, then there are no longer spectators or works of art, but rather processes of relationships of mutual transformation. Combinations of agents which influence one another”.

 

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