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Perdre aussi nous appartient [Losing Is Also Still Ours]

12/02/2023 - 22/04/2023

Jean-Kenta Gauthier 
5 rue de l'Ancienne-Comédie 
 
75006 Paris

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We are pleased to present the group exhibition Losing Is Also Still Ours [Perdre aussi nous appartient] with works by Daniel Blaufuks, Raphaël Dallaporta, JH Engström, Capucine Gros, Mishka Henner, David Horvitz, Alfredo Jaar, Ethan Levitas, Daido Moriyama, Hanako Murakami, Anders Petersen, Stéphanie Solinas, and Daisuke Yokota. The exhibition is held in both Odéon and Vaugirard spaces.

This exhibition is an attempt to align with the subtlety of poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) words: "Losing is also still ours" (letter to Hans Carossa, 7 February 1924). Something is always lost, and this very loss is precious.

Each of the works in the exhibition is, as Alfredo Jaar likes to formulate, an "exercise in representation". Representations of the world, of intimacy, of suffering, of violence, of pleasure, of silence and noise. In doing so, none of the works in this exhibition dictate what is to be seen. The challenge of Losing Is Also Still Ours is to present clearly how all representation retains an irreducible and precious opacity.