Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Aurélien Potier, Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Apologize, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, graphite on paper, 60x100cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Discovering where the limit is, we dance around its body, graphite on paper, 22x29cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Frisk, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 20x100cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Do you hear?, intervention with graphite, site-specific installation, 2021 / Cristals (embryos), cristal salt on paper, 14x21cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Bind, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, graphite on paper, 60x100cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Try, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 86x100cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Love, sea water evaporated on steel, salt, 60x100cm, 2021
Aurélien Potier, time, silence, attention, graphite on paper, 27x37cm, 2020 / Do you hear?, intervention with graphite, site-specific installation, 2021
Aurélien Potier, LANA CAVE, sound, 18min, 2021
Aurélien Potier, LANA CAVE, sound, 18min, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Grow, salt cristals, steel, variable dimensions, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Montrose, intervention with sea water, site-specific installation, 2021
Aurélien Potier, Montrose, intervention with sea water, site-specific installation, 2021
LANA CAVE transforms the exhibition place into a symbolic space, mystifying anal ejaculation.
Through a process with which the goal is not to exhibit on, but inside the walls, Aurélien Potier soaks the space with sea water collected at the Montrose - a cruising gay spot in Marseilles. The salt cristals reveal the preciosity of this "sacred water", crossing bodies’ thresholds.
The walls are scrubbed, scratched, darkened with a nervous writing, almost illegible that is not without recalling acts of subjection, assignations to hysteria. The artist here invoques the right for emancipation, pleasure, orgasm.
Building links between inside and outside space, articulating his gesture between two antagonistic mediums - ink and water - he questions the ways knowledge can be transmitted, and pours all over a message that will only be clarified through orality.
His voice resounds in all the rooms as the music, variating between crystalling and smothered sounds, steps in as a desire for love : "Later my hand was inside his body, all I wanted was to reach his heart and grab it. My head was insanely clear, I never was this close to nothing."
