I AM NOT YOUR TERRITORY, WE ARE MY ONLY CHARACTER

Josefina Anjou, Ethan Assouline, César Brun, Antonin Giroud-Delorme, Sam Hersbach, Susan Kooi, Mila Lanfermeijer, Monica Mays, Laura Porter, Julie Sas, Lucas Semeraro

At CHIFFONNIER

Curated by Antonin Giroud-Delorme

Photography by Salim Santa Lucia

October 02 – November 01, 2020

I am Not Your Territory, We Are My Only Character

 

I discovered many leaky sources in my ceiling. They told me that my crust wasn’t impervious enough. Borders have been a question, especially when seeing myself on a squarish black glass reflection. Even if everyone says squares don’t exist as perfect rectilinear shape, why isn’t my own perception enough? I might be a container, a shelter, probably not only for myself but for others too. Or did the others make me feel that? Am I a singular roof disconnecting regularly from the urban tissue? Probably a bit of everything asynchronously. I prefer to follow the bean lines and believe in their symbolical value. The more I want to impulsively feel my skin as a rampart, the more I discover windows, loaded with childish bubbly landscapes shadowing my feet. The other way around works too. Taking my skin as an open gate pushes me at some point to fence up the garden; but then, I infiltrate under-scaled worlds on the edge of disappearance. I think what is important to realize is who can be affected by this. You? Them? Or only myself wearing a mask, frightening them in a huge ventilation evacuation shaft?

 

Do you see how much I desire you? Probably not, constructions are too thick between us. I feel you receive only what I would rather keep for myself or play out in nightmares. I would rather look at old-fashioned divinities belly dancing with modern high standards. If my entrance was your emergency exit, we would build better modular organization than any modern architectural utopia. Exchanging positions from time to time, we would become real organs rather than metaphorical translations. I would glow in the dark without fear of leading you to my chest. The debt of any gift would balance itself in net copper rods. Handle, handle, we were taught. Handle handle. What if I turn it with my weakest hand? Will you force it back on the other side? Or will we open the door together in an unconscious mirroring game?

 

This threshold is actually a part of a mutual corpse. The fact we see it standing is an illusion; rather, it would appear softly contorting itself to draw other escaping lines.
Who is paying for this modeled rigidity? My sexual attraction is like this rectangular pillar of mine. If we link all its sides as an imaginary embodied story line, the four surfaces will becomes one, shinning toward any direction, horizontally. If I need to think of why I have to offer you my love, we better just sew a new blanket as default currency, and see what transformations the bed takes on next. The vibrancy of obscure woven tales will regenerate my flesh only if we become inconsistent walls. The floor plan drawn as a blind date, ardent clockwork, mutual consumption.
Fear, fear as the first and last thing to exchange.

Josefina Anjou Left, Right, Front and Back of a dimensional being 74x60x45cm Oil on canvas, teak, paduak and iroko wood 2020
Ethan Assouline Disparaitre (2024)(un nouveau visage(...)) Various materials [model] 2020
César Brun Sans titre (Zone de Fantaisie) Windows size dimensions Tempera paint 2020
Antonin Giroud-Delorme Divorced parents Gen’ Variable dimensions Burnt Sleeping bag, fragment of oxidized copper bed warming pan, dried leaf, green clay on light bulb, cable, kombu algae, round copper bars, medical bandages, dried bramble, black pendant chain, black condom, beeswax molded scale and steel powder, twisted metal hangers, dried branches, black key, black hook 2020
Sam Hersbach Continuation of the shoulder sitter 65x55cm Acrylic paint, pigments, acrylic binder medium, charcoal, gouache, gesso, on canvas, soft layer of UV-protective varnish 2018–2020
Susan kooi Dogū Various sizes 9cm 30cm Porcelain with glow in the dark glazing 2017
Mila Lanfermeijer Practice Sheet(How to draw a flower) 21x29.7cm Silk ink kalamkari on paper 2015 + Practice Sheet (Goddess) Silk ink kalamkari on unbleached cotton cloth 2017
Monica Mays Untitled (Bucolic Gang) 180x160x70cm Wood, brass, flowers, leaves, silk 2020
Laura porter Float 190x130cm Enameled ceramic, hydrographic camouflage, red and black beans, Nigel seeds, plastic teeth, foam, glass, sugar-glass, Q-tips, lycra 2016
julie sas Figuration alpha de la vie de Patrick V. Variable dimensions Acrylic paint, earthenware tiles, polyether foam, fabric, steel, plastics, papier-mâché, color video (58:19) looped 2020
lucas semeraro grave 92x9x20cm Steel, fimo clay, led, transfer on cotton 2020