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We would like to take marzipan as a starting point or image, that false fruit or small figure made of almond paste that tops end-of-year holiday cakes. Something analogous seems to be at play between trompe-l’oeil figurines and what the works reveal about the subversion of reality. All of them play with the idea of false appearances, that strange distance between what we think we perceive and what an object actually is. The exhibition is populated by these domestic elements—lamps, drawers, tissues, candles, envelopes, packaging—that the artists manipulate to propose transformed, displaced, enlarged, or sometimes reduced versions. They do not imitate reality but take it as a reference in order to slide objects out of their primary function, forcing bodies to adjust to them and to reconsider them.
Games of transparency, scale, texture, and presence. Some of these micro-architectures resemble containers or plinths, carrying and revealing the enclosed object according to a principle of…
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Press Release
We would like to take marzipan as a starting point or image, that false fruit or small figure made of almond paste that tops end-of-year holiday cakes. Something analogous seems to be at play between trompe-l’oeil figurines and what the works reveal about the subversion of reality. All of them play with the idea of false appearances, that strange distance between what we think we perceive and what an object actually is. The exhibition is populated by these domestic elements—lamps, drawers, tissues, candles, envelopes, packaging—that the artists manipulate to propose transformed, displaced, enlarged, or sometimes reduced versions. They do not imitate reality but take it as a reference in order to slide objects out of their primary function, forcing bodies to adjust to them and to reconsider them.
Games of transparency, scale, texture, and presence. Some of these micro-architectures resemble containers or plinths, carrying and revealing the enclosed object according to a principle of…
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