Never! Time can never be stopped, yo!
Why do you hesitate?
When there’s only one choice
Now is your only chance
Here is your only
Your only place to stay
You are in a fantasy
When everything is crumbling away
You are still in a fantasy (…)
– Excerpt from the lyrics of “환상속의 그대” (You, in The Fantasy) by Seo Taiji & Boys (1992)
Julien Creuzet (b. 1986 in Le Blanc Mesnil, France, lives and works in Montreuil, France) creates protean artworks incorporating poetry, music, sculpture, assemblage, film and animation. Evoking trans-oceanic postcolonial transactions in relation to multiple temporalities the artist places his own inherited past, present and future at the heart of his production. Eluding generalised narratives and cultural reductions, Creuzet’s work often spotlights anachronisms and social realities to construct objects of irreducibility. Akin to relics from the future brought ashore by an oceanic tide, Creuzet’s works materialise as amplified tokens of history, technology, geography and selves. Recent solo exhibitions include: Camden Arts Center, London (upcoming), Document, Chicago, CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Fondation Ricard, Paris, Bétonsalon, Paris. Group exhibitions include: Manifesta 13, Marseilles, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt , Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Rennes Biennale, Rennes, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Creuzet is currently nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021.
Aaron Garber-Maikovska’s (b.1978 in Washington DC, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) works are indeterminate transcripts of performative interrogations, tracing out modes of communication through compulsively kinaesthetic investigations. Improvisational in nature, these transcripts exist as somewhat inexplicable, an impossible combination of dance, lecture, comedy and ultimately painting.
