Exhibition view ‘Handle With Care', Paris, 2022. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Handle with care
Multi-gallery exhibition hosted by the Spaceless Gallery
Participating artists: Amélie Bernard, Cyril Debon, Alessandro de Marinis, Julien Heintz, Victoire Inchauspé, Jonas Moënne et Zohreh Zavareh
May 19 - June 6, 2022
For the exhibition ‘Handle with care’, Hatch has reconsidered the multiple attributes of fragility in terms of simultaneous vulnerability and strength.
Carrying a fault line or ruptures, fragility is often associated with a repulsive disposition, a negative condition of inferiority, a precarious state, a condemnation to powerlessness... Made of eternal cycles, silent and so unpredictable, fragility is nevertheless an opening, a possibility that must be tamed. "No one can escape fragility and nothing escapes it, but it can open up to hope" said Charles Péguy.
Based on this scenario, Hatch proposes for Handle with care: "Give fragility, I will make it a strength!". The six invited artists - Victoire Inchauspé, Julien Heintz, Amélie Bernard, Alessandro de Marinis, Jonas Moenne, Zohreh Zavareh and Cyril Debon - participate in the construction of a nuanced mosaic of narratives supported by resilient voices.
Their varied practices, ranging from painting to sculpture or even ceramics and porcelain, embody different faces of fragility. They bear witness to the vulnerability of people and places, manifesting a personal engagement with the human body, nature and the passage of time. This sensitivity is expressed in a stylistic language of media and forms that is both ephemeral and resistant.
From meditation to investigation to introspection, the composition is informed by artist statements to offer a textured image of the fragile and inform our thinking about generative paths of resistance.
Exhibition view ‘Handle With Care', Paris, 2022. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view ‘Handle With Care', Paris, 2022. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Amelie Bernard, "Broken Skins", 2021, 40,5 x 54,5 cm, sculptures and mixed techniques: marble, plasterboard, resin glue, metal mesh, colored wax, polystyrene, silicone, wood. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view ‘Handle With Care', Paris, 2022. Julien Heintz, Sonographie series. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Amelie Bernard, "Broken Skins", 2021, 60 x 8 cm, photo printing on plaster, wire mesh, colored wax, polystyrene, insulating foam, wood. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view ‘Handle With Care', Paris, 2022. Photo: Gabriel Conole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Exhibition view ‘Handle With Care', Paris, 2022. Alessandro de Marinis, Autoritratto, Giango e Poncho series. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH.
Cyril Debon, site specific installation, 'Chauves-souris', 2022, faience, variable size. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH
Zohreh Zavareh, site specific installation, 'S'accroupir', 2022, ants painted with black acrylic, variable size. Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH
Jonas Moënne, "Les Kakis de Monique", 2018 - 2019, 29 x 57 cm, vase, decoration erased by sandblasting and disconnection, re-gluing at 1250°C, text and drawing of Asian hornet (800°C). Photo: Gabriel Connole. Courtesy of the artist and HATCH