The artwork depicts a minimalist sculptural piece consisting of three long, thin black metal rods arranged in a symmetrical vertical formation. The rods are positioned in a parallel manner, creating a sense of simplicity and balance in the overall composition. The use of a monochromatic color scheme and the clean, geometric shapes emphasize the artwork's focus on form and materiality. The artist's intention may have been to explore themes of structural integrity, negative space, and the interplay between the work and its surrounding environment. This understated yet visually striking piece exemplifies the reductive aesthetic common in contemporary minimalist art. ...
Playing on both formal and conceptual paradoxes, Mathilde Albouy's sculptural work invites the viewer to a game whose rules are not clearly defined. We don't know whether the encounter with her sculptures is an act of courtship or predation, confronting us with a dangerous seduction. Nourished by feminist science fiction, Mathilde uses the fictions generated by her pieces as political tools to question an established, binary reality. By hijacking scales and materials, the sometimes sharp or toxic objects become individuals in their own right, revealing how the beauty of objects, particularly feminine ones, conveys patterns of oppression. ...
Galerie Derouillon was founded in Paris in 2013 by Benjamin Derouillon and is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging contemporary artists. Since its inception, Galerie Derouillon has put the emphasis on providing young artists a long term support in every stage of production, exhibition and dissemination of our artists’ practice.
The main focus is on international emerging artists, creating a community and bonds with historical and more established artists through curated group shows. Collaboration is an important feature in the ecosystem of the gallery as we dedicate ourselves in creating relationships between artists, galleries and institutions by producing books, exhibitions as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
