22,48 m²

For Paris Gallery Weekend, 22,48 m² grants Carte blanche to Henri Guette, art critic and curator, who will accompany the artist in their project and write a text. Coming from contemporary poetry, he explores the connections between art and literature, with a particular focus on narratives and languages. A member of C-E-A and AICA, he shares his research through writings and podcasts, notably with Jeunes Critiques d’Art and the show En Pleines Formes. After experiences in literary programming and cultural project coordination, he continues his work today at Fernrohr, where he adapts Jules Verne’s novels, such as The Green Ray, to make fiction a space for encounters.

For this new exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Caron continues his exploration of the invisible phenomena that shape the world, revealing, through the prism of sculpture and installation, a silent cosmogony where matter and the intangible enter into tension. Curated by Henri Guette, the exhibition unfolds as a subtle dialogue between gravity and lightness, stability and precariousness, the visible and the imperceptible. The artist excels in the art of materializing the invisible. His works not only depict natural and cosmic forces, they capture their essence, making them almost tangible. By exposing the traces of telluric forces or revealing the fragility of breath. His work is part of a poetics of the threshold, where equilibrium is always in abeyance. Each sculpture acts as a physical and sensory experience, confronting the viewer with that which both transcends and traverses us. Far from a scientific demonstration or a purely formal exercise, the exhibition orchestrates a ballet of instabilities where matter confronts its own limits. Jean-Baptiste Caron stages moments of tilt and uncertainty, where beginning and end merge, where inertia and movement interpenetrate. In this way, his works don’t give themselves away immediately: they reveal themselves over time, in the viewer’s attention, in the acceptance of a necessary wait. “Forces en Présence“ doesn’t just document the invisible; it invites us to experience it, to feel its discreet, elusive power, while confronting us with the forces that run through us and shape us. In a way, it’s a testing of the senses, which allows us to question our own relationship with the world.