Potion in glass bottle, acacia thorns, wood, ash, charcoal and various materials.DS Galerie
Description
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The artwork features a wooden display unit adorned with various vintage-inspired elements. The natural wood tones and the metal accents create a warm, rustic aesthetic. The centerpiece is a glass decanter, surrounded by smaller decorative items like brass objects and a book, suggesting a sense of curation and display. The overall composition emphasizes the interplay of texture, form, and function, reflecting a contemporary approach to blending utilitarian and artistic sensibilities. This piece likely aims to evoke a nostalgic, artisanal atmosphere, drawing inspiration from historical design while incorporating a modern sensibility. ...
Youri Johnson develops immersive narratives that blend ritualistic materials and symbolic objects, forming evocative installations and sculptures. Through text, sculpture, and found objects, he weaves layered compositions that function like subtle spells, revealing hidden networks of belief, memory, and power. His work draws from a broad constellation of influences, including mythology, esotericism, and vernacular knowledge. Everyday materials—keys, knives, stones, candles—are transformed into enigmatic objects that seem to carry their own logic and intention. These forms function as thresholds between the intimate and the collective, the physical and the metaphysical. Writing is central to Johnson’s process, not as explanation but as extension. His poems and theoretical fragments operate in parallel with the sculptural, building a vocabulary that is intuitive, elliptical, and emotionally resonant. Through this interplay of word and object, he constructs subtle, destabilizing narratives that challenge rational structures and invite other modes of knowing. Johnson’s practice is grounded in a sensitivity to presence, gesture, and symbolic resonance. His work resists spectacle, opting instead for accumulation, detail, and the transformative potential of small things—a practice of fiction as resistance, and art as quiet alchemy. ...
DS Galerie is a contemporary art gallery based in Paris. After six years of being a nomad curatorial project (2016–2022), Double Séjour has now become DS Galerie, implemented in Paris and fully metamorphosing into a gallery. The gallery represents and invites French and international artists, mainly from the emerging scene. DS Galerie takes part in international fairs such as Art-O-Rama (Marseille), Paris Photo (FR) and Material (MEX).
