steel, wood, lace, snail shell, silvered plate, silver mirror, rubber, magnets, goat tripes, berry picking comb, river water pearls, earrings
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
Nils Alix-Tabeling's installation "Miroir Source: earrings" features an intricate composition of metallic elements resembling leaves and organic forms, with a reflective sphere as the centerpiece. The piece has a surrealist and symbolist style, merging elements of nature and mysticism, suggesting connections between reality and illusion. The artwork's mixture of textures and materials evokes an ancient, occult sensibility. The artist's background in blending history with fiction is evident as he challenges the viewer's perception and blurs the lines between the visible and the invisible in a poetic exploration of human identity. ...
A great lover of literature, science, poetry, the occult, paganism, pop culture and strange and wonderful stories, Nils Alix-Tabeling produces a singular body of work that questions our future as humans in a rapidly changing world.
Resolutely symbolist, even surrealist, his sculptures, installations, paintings, texts and performances are full of references to magical and ancient practices, as well as to certain stories and legendary figures, both real and fictional. His work, which brings together heterogeneous and chimerical identities in a transhistorical, syncretic and intuitive approach, hybridizes categories of genre and the realms of the living and even the non-living. The result is a sophisticated, complex universe whose vital energy is devoted to making the invisible visible by dissolving the boundaries between reality and fiction.
He exhibited in Futur, Ancien, Fugitif at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2019, Possédé.e.s at the Moco in Montpellier in 2020 and at the Kunstverein in Dortmund and the Parvis in Tarbes in 2023. He works with the galleries Public in London and Piktogram in Warsaw.
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