Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Barbara Lagié. Courtesy : Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
The Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve grants carte blanche to Barbara Lagié as part of the exhibition “The Good, the Beast and the Weird”, from May 4th to June 15th, 2024.
Barbara Lagié is a curator and exhibition director at Radicants, a curatorial cooperative founded by Nicolas Bourriaud. She has directed and supervised numerous indoor and outdoor projects and exhibitions for galleries, and participated in international events such as Nuit Blanche and the Venice Biennale (2022). She is currently a curator for the 15th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, scheduled to open in September 2024.
“The Good, the Beast and the Weird”
The Suzanne Tarasieve gallery is pleased to present “The Good, the Beast and the Weird” from May 4th to June 15th, 2024, a collective exhibition conceived by Barbara Lagié bringing together the works of three artists: Marcella Barceló, Hugo Guérin, and Isaac Lythgoe.
In her book “When Species Meet” (2008), Donna Haraway invites us to reconsider the power dynamics that govern our interactions with the living world. Inspired by her close relationship with her dog, Cayenne Pepper, Haraway explores the connections between the multiple species that share our daily lives, from the microorganisms that inhabit us to pets. The exhibition “The Good, the Beast, and the Weird” is an invitation to rethink “the end of human exceptionalism” (Jean-Marie Schaeffer) and to celebrate inter-species encounters in hallucinatory worlds. It urges us to perceive the living not as distinct entities but rather as a trans-species performance, aiming to abolish anthropocentric hierarchies and conceptions.
In other words, the artists move away from dualistic schemes of man/animal, nature/culture to create temporal fusions. Some evoke the futuristic fantasy of a hybrid creature, while others deterritorialize (Philippe Descola) and provoke an encounter where humans, animals, and the environment share a sensitivity or even a common anxiety about reality.
Each painting, each sculpture, then becomes a fragment of a symphony in variation where the boundaries between the human and the non-human blur to make way for confusion between genders, species, bodies, and technology.
