Centrale presents Side by Side, a group exhibition featuring the 10 laureates who have received a Centrale prize over the past four years. Artists Bertrand Cavalier, Léonore Chastagner, Eva Claus, Ellen Dhondt, Melissa Medan, Kemy Obafemi, Ooops I drew it again, Clara Villier, Serena Vittorini and Yue Yuan display powerful works as well as engaged, sensitive and deeply contemporary practices. Ten artists, ten approaches, the same attention to gestures, to stories, to what links bodies to places, individuals to systems, memories to objects. Through photography, video, drawing, painting and installation, the laureates weave a sensitive cartography of the present, where the intimate meets the political, where the personal illuminates the collective. Their singular practices respond to each...
Centrale presents Side by Side, a group exhibition featuring the 10 laureates who have received a Centrale prize over the past four years. Artists Bertrand Cavalier, Léonore Chastagner, Eva Claus, Ellen Dhondt, Melissa Medan, Kemy Obafemi, Ooops I drew it again, Clara Villier, Serena Vittorini and Yue Yuan display powerful works as well as engaged, sensitive and deeply contemporary practices. Ten artists, ten approaches, the same attention to gestures, to stories, to what links bodies to places, individuals to systems, memories to objects. Through photography, video, drawing, painting and installation, the laureates weave a sensitive cartography of the present, where the intimate meets the political, where the personal illuminates the collective. Their singular practices respond to each other. As in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece finds its place in a larger composition. Side by side, the artists compose an open constellation. ‘Despite all appearances, it's not a solitary game.’ Georges Perec, La Vie mode d’emploi The laureates received a prize from Centrale as part of the Art Contest (Ellen Dhondt, Melissa Medan, Yue Yuan), Carte de Visite (Ooops I drew it again, Clara Villier, Serena Vittorini), Ceramic Brussels (Léonore Chastagner) and Prix Médiatine (Bertrand Cavalier, Eva Claus, Kemy Obafemi) contests. Visual: Léonore Chastagner, Sans titre, 2021, 10x8cm, ceramic, Sans titre, 2021, 7x8cm, ceramic.