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'Truite arc-en-ciel' by Romain Vicari at Les Ateliers DLKC, Ariege

Romain Vicari is fond of urban spaces, which he uses as his main space of expression. Here, he exploits a room of the house, which has become a source for creation, to revitalize “Candomblé”, an Afro-Brazilian tradition of black magic resulting from a mixture of indigenous rites and African beliefs in a colonial context. On a crumbling floor are stored offerings with an important symbolic charge. To cast a spell, that is how to leave a trace. This scene influenced by the various Macumba rites, revisits this tradition by integrating recycled materials and more contemporary enemies, such as the capitalist system or the world’s indifference to the threatening climate crisis. Vicari’s challenge: to create a poetry of matter. 

In the installation he presents here, mechanical and organic elements, trinkets and pieces of objects evoke this charge of ritual, both sacred in inspiration and prosaic in construction. A miniature model, with an androgynous and animal-like appearance imagining a crab or a spider of the future, is accompanied by a video of a butterfly taking off. It reminds us of nature and technology growing and emerging from the ground, perhaps a tragic end, that of the end of the world? Our feet in the void, at the edge of this empty industrial pool, the spectator is invited into a meditative contemplation, that of the Romain Vicari’s Macumba. It is up to each of us to interpret what this esoteric-inspired metal dump reveals. 

31.7.22 — 2.9.22

Les Ateliers DLKC

'Like a Moth to a Flame' by Luca Florian at Atelier 35, Bucharest

'Social Agony Conscious Healing' by Jack Kennedy at Forth, Nottingham

'CELESTIAL POETICS', Group Show Curated by Liam Denny at Greenhouse Off-site, Mel

'GRAFT' by Amitai Romm at VEDA, Florence

'Terrapozzoli' by Martina Kügler at Mountains, Berlin

'Un perfume sin soporte, un gasto puro' by Marina Glez. Guerreiro and Raúl Lorenz

'Misty’s Tears', Off-Site Show by Gitte Maria Möller in Unitarian Church, Cape To

'Meditations on Entropy' by X Breidenbach at NIGHTTIMESTORY, Los Angeles

'Plague Expo Show', Group Project at Plague Office and Sasha Shardak's studio, Ka

'Re: Recover; Don't make angels dream of' by Yamamoto Shohei at Ritsuki Fujisaki

'Peel' by Stian Ådlandsvik at Van Etten Gallery, Oslo

'Figures of Speech', Group Show Curated by Dobroslawa Nowak and Nicola Nitido at

'Wet Wishes' by Laura Ní Fhlaibhín at Britta Rettberg, Munich

'The Descent', Off-Site Group Project at Mount Douglas Cave, Victoria

'Big Beat Disaster' by DIS at Project Native Informant, London

'Ambergris' by Ánima Correa at Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles

'Necromancer' by Andrew Roberts at House of Chappaz, Valencia

Joshua Abelow at Kunsthalle Wichita

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