galerie Sator
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Raphaël Denis, Alessandro Di Lorenzo, Gabriel Leger, Éric Manigaud, Bruno Pélassy, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Thiên Ngoc Ngo Rioufol
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"De l'effacement de la figure humaine"
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Le Tourbillon de la Vie #01, 2013, Impression Lambda contrecollée sur aluminium, 120 x 150 cm, Edition de 5 ex + 1 AP, © Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Courtesy de l'artiste & galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris
« The erasure of the human figure is addressed in the context of modern and Contemporary art movements, notably in abstraction. Abstract art, from the early 20th century onwards, sought to move away from figurative representation of the human body, in favor of shapes and colors that did not necessarily imply the human presence. Artists such as Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky created works in which the human figure was either completely absent, or indirectly evoked through geometric shapes or non-figurative compositions. More recently, in postmodern or conceptual works, the erasure of the human figure can symbolize a disconnection between the individual and his or her environment or representations. The human becomes less central, even anonymous, in an increasingly technological and depersonalized world.
The erasure of the human figure can be a way of denouncing a loss of individuality, a disconnection from the self, or a phenomenon in which the human becomes subordinate to external forces, whether technological, economic or social. (…) It is often a critique of modern or postmodern conditions in which the individual seems to lose his or her place or meaning. »
(Source : chatGPT)
After nearly six years of activity at KOMUNUMA, for our latest exhibition in Romainville, we wanted to address the theme of the erasure of the human figure. In dialogue with Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Raphaël Denis, Gabriel Leger and Éric Manigaud, we invited two emerging artists, Alessandro di Lorenzo and Thien-Ngoc Ngo-Rioufol, the former recently discovered at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, the latter at DOC, an artistic production space in the 19th arrondissement. Supported for several years by art critic, poet and exhibition storyteller Chris Cyrille-Isaac, with whom we collaborate regularly, we wanted to involve visual artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, whose studio we visited during a prospecting trip to Guadeloupe last winter. We have also solicited our colleagues with whom we opened the site in 2019, who have kindly entrusted us with works by Bruno Pelassy and Lawrence Weiner (Air de Paris), Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (Fabienne Leclerc – In Situ) and Eugène Carrière (Jocelyn Wolff).
To take an interest in the erasure of the human figure is to address the dizzying question of time, memory and remembrance, that of identity, confused and fragile, and more fundamentally to confront the sensitive issue of humanism in contemporary art and in our societies.
Group show of Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Raphaël Denis, Alessandro Di Lorenzo, Gabriel Leger, Éric Manigaud, Bruno Pélassy, Kelly Sinnapah Mary and Thiên Ngoc Ngo Rioufol
From May 23rd to July 17th, 2025
The gallery
Founded in 2011 in the Marais in Paris, Galerie Sator promotes the work of emerging and developing international artists.
The gallery is characterized by its strong emphasis on visual art that references other forms of art and fields of thought: politics, history, history of art, literature, philosophy and science.
The gallery’s approach is completed by an investigation of the place of the image in contemporary societies and of the production of plastic forms.
Gallery artists
Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Corentin Canesson, Jean Marc Cerino, Sylvain Ciavaldini, Raphaël Denis, Hugo Deverchère, Yevgeniy Fiks, Christian Gonzenbach, Yan Heng, Evangelia Kranioti, Hayoun Kwon, Gabriel Leger, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Eric Manigaud, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Truc-Anh, Pu Yinkwei
Galerie sélectionnée par Anaël Pigeat et Chris Cyrille Isaac
