Pewter and various materials on magic card, wooden frame made by the artist.DS Galerie
Description
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The artwork features a framed, three-dimensional object with a vintage-style metallic frame and a centered image. The composition is minimalist, with the frame and image as the primary visual elements. The image within the frame appears to depict a woman or female figure, though the details are obscured. The overall style and technique suggest an experimental, mixed-media approach, blending traditional and contemporary elements. The artwork likely explores themes of identity, memory, or the human experience, reflecting the artist's unique perspective and artistic vision. ...
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).
