Galerie Sator
Boaz - Romain Kronenberg , France
Les ombres que nous sommes - Katia Bourdarel , France
Romain Kronenberg, Photos d’Amos, 2021, courtesy Romain Kronenberg & galerie Sator
Boaz is above all the story of a story. A story found at random in the souvenir stores of the small island of Procida, off the coast of Naples, of a word forgotten on an old tape recorder and surprisingly collected. This story is that of Boaz and his adopted family, his brother Malachie, their sister Déborah and their father Amos.
This complex project that Romain Kronenberg has been developing since the discovery of this tape recorder in the spring of 2017, is undeniably centered on the question of the sacred, which the story of Boaz, opportunely found, allows him to explore.
The exhibition brings together a collection of plastic and filmic works, objects, and documents that bear witness to this exploration, all of which revolve around the novel that structures the whole. Taking as a starting point a working method initiated with his previous proposal, Tout est vrai in 2019, Romain Kronenberg deploys a new exhibition around a narrative that constitutes the backbone and conditions the creation of forms and images. Boaz is constructed as a contemporary myth where Mircea Eliade's research on rites and the Melanesian cult of Cargo intersect. The sacredness that envelops the project is however neither excessive nor surprising. On the contrary, it is a form of modest, everyday sacredness, mystical certainly, but without mystery. It is the destiny of those who bear the burden of a society in need of reference points, in need of transcendence.
In parallel, the gallery presents a personal exhibition of Katia Bourdarel in its space in the Marais, which ends on Sunday, June 6.
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The gallery
Opened in 2011 in the Marais in Paris, the Galerie Satoris committed to the promotion of emerging international artists. The gallery is defined in a referenced relationship between art and other forms of art or thought creation: politics, history, art history, literature, philosophy or sciences intended to question the human being’s place in the world, to provide a tool for reflection on contemporary societies, their evolution and mutation, their relation to the territory.
In the fall of 2019, the Galerie Sator joined Komunuma in Romainville. In this second space, on a plateau of one hundred and thirty square meters, it presents and defends specific and curatorial projects.
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Gallery artists
Jean-Marc Cerino • Sylvain Ciavaldini • Raphaël Denis • Yevgeniy Fiks • Christian Gonzenbach • Yan Heng • Evangelia Kranioti • Romain Kronenberg • Hayoun Kwon • Gabriel Leger • Kokou • Ferdinand Makouvia • Éric Manigaud • Nazanin Pouyandeh • Truc-Anh • Pu Yingwei
