The Birth of Art
Galerie Eli Kerr•May 23, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026
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Greetings from the underbelly of one civilisation. Step by step into the subterranea of image-making, through the backroom of the exhibition space, two voices discuss the birth of an artwork. They are spectators and midwives, dissecting footage in length—each edit an incision, the directors’ cuts. Too much? Uh-uh, I think we overkilled this image. Though never displayed, a picture starts to form, its contour delineated through speech acts: segmented descriptions, comments broken into fits of laughter. There is mention of a postcard, a fallen horse, a scene of violence. We understand the two voices went on a trip, down into a cave towards “le premier signe sensible qui nous soit parvenu de l’homme et de l’art.”1 They smuggled a camera with them. Fast forwarding through the illicit recording, they watch themselves wander through a bathetic decorum: a life-size “facsimile” advertised on www.lascaux.fr, located just a few meters away from the original site. A “prehistoric Sistine Chapel”2…
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The Birth of Art
Galerie Eli Kerr•May 23, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026
Press Release
Greetings from the underbelly of one civilisation. Step by step into the subterranea of image-making, through the backroom of the exhibition space, two voices discuss the birth of an artwork. They are spectators and midwives, dissecting footage in length—each edit an incision, the directors’ cuts. Too much? Uh-uh, I think we overkilled this image. Though never displayed, a picture starts to form, its contour delineated through speech acts: segmented descriptions, comments broken into fits of laughter. There is mention of a postcard, a fallen horse, a scene of violence. We understand the two voices went on a trip, down into a cave towards “le premier signe sensible qui nous soit parvenu de l’homme et de l’art.”1 They smuggled a camera with them. Fast forwarding through the illicit recording, they watch themselves wander through a bathetic decorum: a life-size “facsimile” advertised on www.lascaux.fr, located just a few meters away from the original site. A “prehistoric Sistine Chapel”2…
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