Book Launch: “When you see me again, it won’t be me.” Jagna Ciuchta
Florence Loewy by artists and Éditions Dilecta invite you to the launch of artist Jagna Ciuchta’s first book, which relates all the stages of her project “When you see me again, it won’t be me.”
With texts by Florence Ostende and Damien Airault, graphic design by Jakub de Barbaro.
Friday, March 14th
5-8 PM
Galerie Florence Loewy by artists
9 rue de Thorigny
75003 Paris (France)
With her project “When you see me again, it won’t be me,” Jagna Ciuchta turns the concept of exhibition over. For her the process of creation, as well as the set-up and dismantling are part of the work of art. Throughout the different stages of her project, she has the exhibition evolve through different forms. The pictures of the project shown in the book withdraw that exhibitions, just like works of art, go far beyond the limits of time and place.
Diving deep into this young artist’s universe, which first interventions have been warmly welcomed, the book present texts by Damien Airault and Florence Ostende (independent curators and art critics).
In 2012-2013, the series of paintings A Landscape With a Large River, which is shown for the first time, continues “When you see me again, it won’t be me,” and becomes the final evolution of this project.
“From the outset, the impossibility of determining a category for the project When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me (2010-2013) disarms the scientific soul of the 20th century art historian anxious to address the age’s aesthetic issues. Indeed, any study of Jagna Ciuchta’s work demands an analysis of her individual pieces of art on the same footing as her exhibitions, which together form a totality of meaning within her practice. Begun in 2010, the present project is built from a group of exhibitions and a parallel corpus of works executed both before and after the exhibitions. In treating the idea of the exhibition as not only the end product but also the driving force of her work, the artist situates the display space as a central factor in her production.” (1)
“The constantly evolving project also constitutes a reflection on fragments and context, where its reproductions and various states inevitably become the basis and the end of the process, whereas for Judd and Parrino they are an element that highlights the finished object. The sequences of When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me are designed to vanish, to become nothing more than memories – to the point where the object disappears, dissolves, replaced by its image. As such, the work is divested of all material constraint, all law, and all turmoil.
More specifically, When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me can be perceived as a complex presentation of the exhibition vocabulary. The plinth serves as the starting point. Dismantled, it becomes painting, sculpture, dais, or wall-piece; lent out, it offers guest artists materials for a new sculpture. Its latest transformation now finds it as a mere presentation of its means of storage and transport – in this case, planks cut into various forms placed in a cardboard box, thus returning to its original parallelepiped form: from plinth to container.” (2)
“By rendering any global and homogeneous overview of her work in the same spatiotemporal context impossible, Ciuchta affords viewers the impression of a continuous dispersal that assimilates the most distant memories to the impact of an explosive.” (1)
(1) Florence Ostende, « When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me », Jagna Ciuchta’s Palimpsest Exhibition
(2) Damien Airault, When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me
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