https://claudeeigan.fr Claude Eigan Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:35:47 +0000 https://claudeeigan.fr en https://claudeeigan.fr/HOME Mon, 06 May 2019 11:17:35 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/HOME https://claudeeigan.fr/Does-the-rising-sun-affright Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:35:47 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/Does-the-rising-sun-affright Does the rising sun affright Group Exhibition with Ania Bąk, Claude Eigan, Natasha Gerlach, Veronika Hapchenko, Bianca Hlywa, Tiziana Krüger, Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michal Knychaus), Cezary Poniatowski, Aleksandra Słyż, Leilei Wu at&nbsp;Zachęta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw PL Curated by Aleksandra Skowronska 15.03.2024 – 26.05.2024 <img width="2048" height="1372" width_o="2048" height_o="1372" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d203e83a4532cbcc6e267190e3e509a8ed8c6405a1453481ff899d0daf107982/DSC02315.jpg" data-mid="217756906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d203e83a4532cbcc6e267190e3e509a8ed8c6405a1453481ff899d0daf107982/DSC02315.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ac8b74616a62f13dda378ec35e44ed32b19e0c911f55cd4dc16bbb4aab3b1d1/DSC02337.jpg" data-mid="217756908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ac8b74616a62f13dda378ec35e44ed32b19e0c911f55cd4dc16bbb4aab3b1d1/DSC02337.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6809a539df7e9ab0b0eca425b8a6fcff8cc7d674977f262b7f39be0a84daaac1/DSC02303.jpg" data-mid="217756904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6809a539df7e9ab0b0eca425b8a6fcff8cc7d674977f262b7f39be0a84daaac1/DSC02303.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbb24b3c0fe945e9ab11e56c0a8a9f1d256e8e37049e928adf01ead1d2bbcea6/DSC02305.jpg" data-mid="217756905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbb24b3c0fe945e9ab11e56c0a8a9f1d256e8e37049e928adf01ead1d2bbcea6/DSC02305.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2fbdc26732fd43992bd5dc5850e297353d60be7e759b39d6334ce1129653615/DSC02320.jpg" data-mid="217756907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2fbdc26732fd43992bd5dc5850e297353d60be7e759b39d6334ce1129653615/DSC02320.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb3aa1cf1ce912802a1858d209675567fad51fba7a56f951f91b7dba72a6cb4d/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_20.jpg" data-mid="217756828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb3aa1cf1ce912802a1858d209675567fad51fba7a56f951f91b7dba72a6cb4d/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_20.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="5000" width_o="4000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73394ed2da9f4ccccedbf60eca8f4f14ac77904da6754d328c646b3e4fd36b13/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_22.jpg" data-mid="217756830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73394ed2da9f4ccccedbf60eca8f4f14ac77904da6754d328c646b3e4fd36b13/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_22.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="5000" width_o="4000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8673880b6276cceb241ff0d00a4cac7de08ca36d8295bb5f2550ea58d204fa7/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_23.jpg" data-mid="217756831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8673880b6276cceb241ff0d00a4cac7de08ca36d8295bb5f2550ea58d204fa7/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_23.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="5000" width_o="4000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53a7c94a442068db301e03657634d55eb8a9a2b8f56dfb52273b2fdb93482dfc/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_24.jpg" data-mid="217756832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53a7c94a442068db301e03657634d55eb8a9a2b8f56dfb52273b2fdb93482dfc/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_24.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="5000" width_o="4000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5bcacac935bcb658e115419cb081d1675f96b5890b26848d50239805c07e114/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_21.jpg" data-mid="217756829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5bcacac935bcb658e115419cb081d1675f96b5890b26848d50239805c07e114/Zacheta_Wystawa_Dokumentacja_fot.Filip-Preis_21.jpg" /> Does the rising sun affright Curated by Aleksandra Skowronska It encourages and compels us to think about our connections with non-human and beyond-human entities: from metal deposits and radiation to yeast, mussels or air. It does not favour humans. It does not lend itself to being romanticised or fetishised, tamed or objectified. Developed by Timothy Morton, dark ecology is a concept that highlights the mystery and complexity of ecological problems, often beyond the reach of our (human) consciousness. It is a&nbsp;philosophical tool that allows us to examine our relationship with the world, which is undergoing increasingly rapid and difficult to understand changes. It enables us to find our way in the dark — in the spectrum of strange and incomprehensible transformations that manifest themselves in events of varying scales: from the whole planet to the individual human body. The artists invited to participate in the exhibition, whose biographies and memories are rooted in the moment of transition, themselves embody the category of spectrum, this time across generations. On the one hand, they reach the end of the ‘long 20th century’ (to quote the sociologist Giovanni Arrighi) — a period of global capitalist expansion and extractivism of the planet, its deposits or biosphere; on the other hand, they are part of the 21st century ecological awareness and narratives of ‘planetary care’ or the concept of ‘care for post-nature’ formulated by the researcher Ewa Bińczyk, often accompanied by a&nbsp;sense of helplessness of the individual deprived of sufficient agency. Individual responses to the aforementioned transition can be seen in creative practices — in working methods and choice of materials (post-industrial waste and objects of everyday use), in references to organic themes, in collaborations with non-human, technological and organic entities, in the use of categories of strangeness, mutation and adaptation, or in the introduction of ironic or erotic motifs. This involves attempts to develop emancipatory strategies or to articulate an attitude towards crisis and apathy. Artistic reflection is not limited to the contemplation of (dark) ecology. It transcends the assumed point of departure and seeks to reformulate the normative concepts and categories necessary in a time of transition — identity, politics, time, matter, future, humankind, and life. The title of the exhibition is deceptive and, like the entities in Morton’s philosophy, conceals its intentions and semantic scope. The phrase, taken from a poem by William Blake and translated into Polish by Zygmunt Kubiak, carries meanings related to the transition between night and day, darkness and light, filled with a timid hope for the future. Text by Aleksandra SkowronskaAll pictures by Filip Preis and ZachetaInner Saboteur I, 2019Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish170 x 80 x 45 cm Inner Saboteur II, 2019Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish140 x 50 x 100 cm Inner Saboteur III, 2020Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish133 x 42 x 83 cm https://claudeeigan.fr/Hymne-aux-murenes Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:39:18 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/Hymne-aux-murenes Hymne aux murènes Group Exhibition with Fabienne Audéoud, FSB Press, Cécile Bouffard with Eileen Myles, Pauline L. Boulba, Claude Eigan, Gustave Girardot, Aminata Labor, Natacha Lesueur, Ingrid Luche, Béatrice Lussol, Bruno Pélassy at Triangle-Astérides, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille Curated by Mathilde Belouali 21.06.2024 – 13.10.2024 <img width="6202" height="4134" width_o="6202" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4a3db29063c4b0920b403b655f7c71cf3849974ac4a1205b73f269304d332bc/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_30.jpg" data-mid="216795478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4a3db29063c4b0920b403b655f7c71cf3849974ac4a1205b73f269304d332bc/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_30.jpg" /> <img width="6202" height="4134" width_o="6202" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c27e68b6df74a10051f9a597bdc2bc7ae04dbff80a9c97a23b7445629608459/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_1.jpg" data-mid="216795444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c27e68b6df74a10051f9a597bdc2bc7ae04dbff80a9c97a23b7445629608459/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_1.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Pissed, 2021 - on going Pigmented resin, steel, pen, various dimensions <img width="2756" height="4134" width_o="2756" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32110cc4a6f38b1bce35e33f60571b8d5c41685b06c18b21a30543bbc1dcc532/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_4.jpg" data-mid="216795448" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32110cc4a6f38b1bce35e33f60571b8d5c41685b06c18b21a30543bbc1dcc532/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_4.jpg" />Claude Eigan Pissed (Lex's dandelion) 2021 Pigmented resin, steel, pen, 54 x 27 cm <img width="6202" height="4134" width_o="6202" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2e73bd32e930e7734e76084e377171be8b433931ea5718e4f4d9162b81c7477/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_26.jpg" data-mid="216795482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2e73bd32e930e7734e76084e377171be8b433931ea5718e4f4d9162b81c7477/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_26.jpg" /> Hymne aux murènesExhibition view <img width="6202" height="4134" width_o="6202" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/015f07f679878fc9307085710c62d0b00b3b174281d3812661ea784e8263a3a7/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_6.jpg" data-mid="216795452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/015f07f679878fc9307085710c62d0b00b3b174281d3812661ea784e8263a3a7/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_6.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Pissed (Baiser 3000 dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, steel, pen, 65 x 25 cm <img width="2756" height="4134" width_o="2756" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43b5ed9d3ee1284703270f484e6e97c68a847c0831ff58ecba5ca09bbbcfe4e2/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_2.jpg" data-mid="216795446" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43b5ed9d3ee1284703270f484e6e97c68a847c0831ff58ecba5ca09bbbcfe4e2/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_2.jpg" /> Hymne aux murènesExhibition view <img width="6202" height="4134" width_o="6202" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fd97e1def8573c0985cdc37fe72de0851f373ebac16eac20946d48a9193248a/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_6.jpg" data-mid="216795497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fd97e1def8573c0985cdc37fe72de0851f373ebac16eac20946d48a9193248a/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_6.jpg" />Hymne aux murènesExhibition view <img width="2756" height="4134" width_o="2756" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96a1528da8005800620caf9754cf295f4f7b2b266ad73e5599e42900e4773408/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_3.jpg" data-mid="216795447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96a1528da8005800620caf9754cf295f4f7b2b266ad73e5599e42900e4773408/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_3.jpg" />Claude Eigan Pissed (Barbie Deinhoff's dandelion), 2024 Pigmented resin, steel, pen, 64 x 26 cm Pissed (Stand.To.Pee’s dandelion), 2024Pigmented resin, steel, pen, 54 x 27 cm <img width="6201" height="4134" width_o="6201" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cebe6c5d1a9f99b1350176b4dfb80899291fb7ac948939f4c2b0479ec3c8d0b/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_7.jpg" data-mid="216795453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cebe6c5d1a9f99b1350176b4dfb80899291fb7ac948939f4c2b0479ec3c8d0b/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_7.jpg" /> Hymne aux murènesExhibition view <img width="2756" height="4134" width_o="2756" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/931be6b801da72269f1f94c17bbd063a78a29309ac51af200f75ecd8253c906f/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_35.jpg" data-mid="216795467" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/931be6b801da72269f1f94c17bbd063a78a29309ac51af200f75ecd8253c906f/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_35.jpg" /> Hymne aux murènesExhibition view <img width="2756" height="4134" width_o="2756" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df463590e8a428d18944a92c90a5fe7ac974a34486c2f35f1074924eb6700aa4/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_5.jpg" data-mid="216795449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df463590e8a428d18944a92c90a5fe7ac974a34486c2f35f1074924eb6700aa4/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Claude-Eigan_Pissed-sCrie_2021-toujours-en-cours_AurClien-Mole_5.jpg" />Claude Eigan Pissed (Red van dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, steel, pen, 39 x 25 cm <img width="2756" height="4134" width_o="2756" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4c818aed419bce0ddd90db8593fcd50bce2633af44fb7b7499076edf32c8c62/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_27.jpg" data-mid="216795481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4c818aed419bce0ddd90db8593fcd50bce2633af44fb7b7499076edf32c8c62/2024-06_Triangle-Asterides_Hymne-aux-Muranes_Vue-d-exposition_AurClien-Mole_27.jpg" /> Hymne aux murènesExhibition view Hymne aux murènes Curated by Mathilde Belouali Malaimées pour leur abord peu commode, leur mine renfrognée et leur vie dans les profondeurs, les murènes ont mauvaise réputation. Comme souvent, c’est injustifié : elles n’attaquent que quand elles se sentent menacées&nbsp;; autrement elles sont indifférentes et parfois même tendres. Certaines naissent femelles pour devenir mâles au cours de leur vie, ou inversement. Leur apparente bizarrerie les a amenées à devenir les animaux attributs d’Ursula, la «&nbsp;méchante&nbsp;» de la version Disney de La petite sirène, chez qui coïncident une identité de genre trouble et des intentions malfaisantes[1]. Elle les a aussi amenées à symboliser une forme de vie et de désir hors-normes et libérateurs dans le roman d’apprentissage lesbien de l’écrivaine Mireille Best intitulé Hymnes aux murènes (1984). Rien d’étonnant à ce que cette exposition emprunte son titre à un livre, car elle se nourrit des porosités et des allers-retours entre arts visuels et écriture, dans les pratiques d’artistes et dans l’histoire des lieux. Elle part notamment de l’histoire d’une galerie d’art devenue aujourd’hui librairie féministe et LGBT+ et lieu culturel important du paysage niçois. Fondée en 1998 par Françoise Vigna et Marie-Hélène Dampérat, la galerie Vigna a pendant ses quatre années d’existence mené une programmation libre et dense, guidée davantage par l’amitié et l’expérimentation que par ses modalités d’existence commerciale. Elle s’est fait l’écho d’une jeune génération d’artistes alors lié·es pour certain·es aux ateliers Astérides à Marseille - association aujourd’hui devenue Triangle-Astérides, centre d’art contemporain et résidence d’artistes[2] - avant de devenir, en tant que librairie, passeuse entre des scènes artistiques, littéraires et militantes à l’échelle régionale. L’exposition Hymne aux murènes a pour volonté de rendre hommage à ce « lieu essentiel et méconnu » et aux «&nbsp;personnages intermédiaires&nbsp;» qui l’animent, celles et ceux qui ne poursuivent pas de carrière individuelle et linéaire, mais qui «&nbsp;établissent des liens, constituent une transition, assurent une communication entre des individus ou des groupes, concrétisent un passage [3]». En regroupant des artistes avec qui la galerie puis la librairie Vigna ont collaboré, ainsi que des plasticien·nes, performeur·ses et éditeur·ices qui creusent et prolongent d’autres histoires de visibilité, de luttes et d’admiration, elle souhaite dessiner par ricochets des géographies queer, des galaxies d’affects et une biographie collective joyeuse, subjective et partielle. Les générations réunies ici partagent souvent, en dépit de leurs vingt ans d’écart, une esthétique commune, volontiers clinquante, sans grandiloquence mais dans laquelle le corps (vibrant, fragmenté, ou contraint) prend une place singulière. Elles ont également en commun un goût pour la recherche et l’approche des murènes, idoles discrètes mais essentielles, tapies dans les recoins des histoires officielles. [1] Voir à ce sujet la thèse de la chercheuse Ariane Temkine sur l’association récurrente entre les rôles de méchant·es et diverses formes de déviances aux normes de genres et de sexualités hégémoniques dans les films d’animation Disney, intitulée Virus et antidotes : le queer coding dans le cinéma d’animation (1937-1999), en préparation à l’EHESS sous la direction d’Anne Lafont. [2] Triangle-Astérides est une association née de la fusion des ateliers Astérides avec Triangle France en 2018. Elle fête cette année ses 30 ans, contexte propice à un regard rétrospectif auquel contribue notamment cette exposition. [3] Laure Murat définit ainsi le rôle et l’importance d’Adrienne Monnier et de Sylvia Beach, et du couple de librairies qu’elles forment dans le Paris de l’entre-deux-guerres. Cf. Laure Murat, Passage de l’Odéon, Fayard, 2003 (réédition L’imaginaire Gallimard, 2024), p. 10-11. Text by Mathilde BeloualiAll pictures by Aurélien Mole https://claudeeigan.fr/Psychotic-Property-Neurotic-Garden-duo Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:29:52 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/Psychotic-Property-Neurotic-Garden-duo Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden Duo Exhibition with Jake Kent at gallery Klemm’s, Berlin Curated by Marta Santi 08.12.2023 – 27.01.2024 <img width="2098" height="2797" width_o="2098" height_o="2797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae79efb7d4eda4171932790935212cf9657bed51c86e3a43ae8ff95fd0fc8b18/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5368_s.jpg" data-mid="201027111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae79efb7d4eda4171932790935212cf9657bed51c86e3a43ae8ff95fd0fc8b18/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5368_s.jpg" />Psychotic Property, Neurotic GardenExhibition view <img width="2098" height="2797" width_o="2098" height_o="2797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66e102c27387d5190e126ca17025854912365dbcf6583c000cae6d9b8624dfdf/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5373_s.jpg" data-mid="201027118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66e102c27387d5190e126ca17025854912365dbcf6583c000cae6d9b8624dfdf/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5373_s.jpg" /><img width="2610" height="1958" width_o="2610" height_o="1958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7363e78021e46668a5269a45e9511bdcfbdf2a532e3d87f51c45629bc102c6ab/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5360_s.jpg" data-mid="201027124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7363e78021e46668a5269a45e9511bdcfbdf2a532e3d87f51c45629bc102c6ab/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5360_s.jpg" /> <img width="2075" height="2767" width_o="2075" height_o="2767" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d21f4347287df822c84da7d5269ebf099b11c27b2a92e363f725d625709396b/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5358_s.jpg" data-mid="201029432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d21f4347287df822c84da7d5269ebf099b11c27b2a92e363f725d625709396b/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5358_s.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Memory foam (9th &amp; Harrison), 2022 Wood, paint, varnish, metal, foam, fabric, 90 x 140 x 160 cm <img width="2797" height="2098" width_o="2797" height_o="2098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5ff4ba82c4f6e07121b9f65766b749b8be0360541744ee2a5bc76f272609304/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5363_s.jpg" data-mid="201029283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5ff4ba82c4f6e07121b9f65766b749b8be0360541744ee2a5bc76f272609304/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5363_s.jpg" /> Psychotic Property, Neurotic GardenExhibition view <img width="2014" height="2686" width_o="2014" height_o="2686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72fcc0f1bedf278bc369745fc2c9b189f8a0039e82424f433c56af21636ec18f/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5355_s.jpg" data-mid="201029423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72fcc0f1bedf278bc369745fc2c9b189f8a0039e82424f433c56af21636ec18f/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5355_s.jpg" />Claude Eigan Sea street lovers, 2022 Cardboard, acrylic resin, primer, paint, varnish, dimensions variable <img width="2083" height="2778" width_o="2083" height_o="2778" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efff01ea7518af81a04845629a500917a3686b1e1ee286257db017726ab4fc3d/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5356_s.jpg" data-mid="201029505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efff01ea7518af81a04845629a500917a3686b1e1ee286257db017726ab4fc3d/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5356_s.jpg" />Claude Eigan Memory foam (Bonne Nouvelle), 2022Wood, paint, varnish, metal, foam, fabric, 90 x 140 x 160 cm <img width="2797" height="2098" width_o="2797" height_o="2098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/041d5a98bc383f3afe7961f4f85f3014eb3ccf8385624f4bccaa08a26d7d0280/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5366_s.jpg" data-mid="201029279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/041d5a98bc383f3afe7961f4f85f3014eb3ccf8385624f4bccaa08a26d7d0280/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5366_s.jpg" /> <img width="2098" height="2797" width_o="2098" height_o="2797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dec47fe158e69fc6eaeedda09cc90aa6b6e534f1d3cd4e8effe891d6c43564e9/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5359_s.jpg" data-mid="201029293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dec47fe158e69fc6eaeedda09cc90aa6b6e534f1d3cd4e8effe891d6c43564e9/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5359_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent Defiant Weeds Smashing up Through Cement (Homage to Dudley Dream, Claude Eigan &amp; CAConrad), 2023 Marker pen on ceramic, found materials, LED, 30 x 45 x 10cm <img width="2551" height="1914" width_o="2551" height_o="1914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c4d8b15697467cd9f7dd4dd6a43c307d54a066209dd21155a331273bdfc1307/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5362_s.jpg" data-mid="201029333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c4d8b15697467cd9f7dd4dd6a43c307d54a066209dd21155a331273bdfc1307/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5362_s.jpg" /> <img width="1621" height="2186" width_o="1621" height_o="2186" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6471ebc702259955a35fea808d09a3a887c591c838af442af2db30de3b34cd1/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5322_s.jpg" data-mid="201029478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6471ebc702259955a35fea808d09a3a887c591c838af442af2db30de3b34cd1/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5322_s.jpg" />Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan We were full of love when they abolished private property, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1683" height="2424" width_o="1683" height_o="2424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5ddccf6650b6ea063b5ef6f70cde1465122137a1182f41a73e16f0282071946/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5331_s.jpg" data-mid="201029536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5ddccf6650b6ea063b5ef6f70cde1465122137a1182f41a73e16f0282071946/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5331_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan A Tiny House in the Trash Pile, 2022 Silkscreen print on canvas, 190 x 130 cm <img width="1630" height="2189" width_o="1630" height_o="2189" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2be837030df9f5767165ee9904ece544728ecadbf766339aea10dfd47df4c24d/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5325_s.jpg" data-mid="201029545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2be837030df9f5767165ee9904ece544728ecadbf766339aea10dfd47df4c24d/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5325_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan I Designed this Multi-story Bug Hotel so the Insects Can Live Out their Utopian Dream in Peace, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1624" height="2197" width_o="1624" height_o="2197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca19c87e9700f1e7e83da30717d18700b6c5a127172f3b57328f14f14315500f/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5324_s.jpg" data-mid="201029556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca19c87e9700f1e7e83da30717d18700b6c5a127172f3b57328f14f14315500f/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5324_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan You can cut all the flowers but you can’t keep spring from coming, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1630" height="2197" width_o="1630" height_o="2197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cef1cf264a5e6a6a1ade134ed76e081223ada9ce8e4de69b26e1301b50428c2d/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5321_s.jpg" data-mid="201029570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cef1cf264a5e6a6a1ade134ed76e081223ada9ce8e4de69b26e1301b50428c2d/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5321_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan 24hr Flower Picking Dyslexic Ass Eaters Against the Criminal Justice System, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1632" height="2201" width_o="1632" height_o="2201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e48a204ca5f75e7f9fe35f0e0bdc4027191c76b14ad0b6b9749c7a3b9e930144/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5323_s.jpg" data-mid="201029584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e48a204ca5f75e7f9fe35f0e0bdc4027191c76b14ad0b6b9749c7a3b9e930144/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5323_s.jpg" />Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan This is the Reality Where Everybody Gets Everything They Want, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1635" height="2201" width_o="1635" height_o="2201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa3fef0310c750dd2b7167b27c76499537496025d3f3b0eeefeb49f06000388e/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5330_s.jpg" data-mid="201029967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa3fef0310c750dd2b7167b27c76499537496025d3f3b0eeefeb49f06000388e/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5330_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan We were full of love when they abolished private property, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1633" height="2181" width_o="1633" height_o="2181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cfb49812f6d7ead5c13a0638e84d46b65a9bb25b61594eca5e225b1ca922822/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5326_s.jpg" data-mid="201030131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cfb49812f6d7ead5c13a0638e84d46b65a9bb25b61594eca5e225b1ca922822/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5326_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan I Designed this Multi-story Bug Hotel so the Insects Can Live Out their Utopian Dream in Peace, 2023Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1627" height="2187" width_o="1627" height_o="2187" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7861ae31583517d3d36fbddd89f488b7b6ff6b06412dfed6f30f9e4352b602d9/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5329_s.jpg" data-mid="201030148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7861ae31583517d3d36fbddd89f488b7b6ff6b06412dfed6f30f9e4352b602d9/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5329_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan You can cut all the flowers but you can’t keep spring from coming, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm<img width="1642" height="2198" width_o="1642" height_o="2198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e347247482c676024d2984d9beef3af669b4864762119f57feed6e262e46a55c/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5328_s.jpg" data-mid="201030147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e347247482c676024d2984d9beef3af669b4864762119f57feed6e262e46a55c/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5328_s.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan 24hr Flower Picking Dyslexic Ass Eaters Against the Criminal Justice System, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm <img width="1628" height="2194" width_o="1628" height_o="2194" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a628d59c62fc82d01cbf869b2c8b1a5296c882ae4f7b23c4ab3f9c3868fb56f4/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5327_s.jpg" data-mid="201029979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a628d59c62fc82d01cbf869b2c8b1a5296c882ae4f7b23c4ab3f9c3868fb56f4/ClaudeEigan_JakeKent_PsychoticPropertyNeuroticGarden_Klemms_5327_s.jpg" />Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan This is the Reality Where Everybody Gets Everything They Want, 2023 Silkscreen print on canvas, 150 x 110 cm Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden Curated by Marta Santi ‘Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden’ is the second double exhibition by Claude Eigan and Jake Kent, curated by Marta Santi at Klemm’s showroom. The show exists as a sequel to ‘CJ’s Place’, a show produced at Gr_und in Berlin in 2021, representing a first meeting point or potential site of community. ‘Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden’ is an homage to pre-existing and existing subcultural and/or queer spaces, and a reflection on the soft-spots and rupture lines of the communal. The exhibition creates an immersive environment that triggers memory and intimately links the space to its temporality and impermanence. A house facade is built, acting both as ‘physical border’ and as an architectural device that opens the discussion around property, ownership and function. In embracing the transient, communities find strength and adaptability. Social spaces and sites of community are constantly in survival mode, reflecting the struggles of a community in need to hustle at all hours. ‘Psychotic Property, Neurotic Garden’ is an attempt to redefine the concept of ‘space’ based on the collective memoir of our cultural landscapes — not without a sense of hope in our ability to adapt and create, and putting trust in the potential of resistance. Claude Eigan (FR) is an artist living and working between Berlin and Marseille. In his practice, Claude Eigan anchors physical places and personal references to objects whose familiar connotations are at times replaced by something strange and potentially hostile. Through gestures of physical confrontation, the visceral materiality of his works opens a gaze on the complexity of bodies and their interconnectedness with the spaces they inhabit. Jake Kent (UK) is an artist and musician, living and working in Berlin. Working predominantly in ceramics as an individual and on canvas in his multiple ongoing collaborations, Kent produces work that is rooted in the exploration of subcultures and their persistent presence in society. The works are less nostalgic and more centered on the combined and uneven resistance subcultural spaces and underclass people continue to maintain against rampant capitalist-totalitarian domination of all aspects of life. All documentation by Klemm’s gallery https://claudeeigan.fr/CJ-s-Place-duo Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:49:13 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/CJ-s-Place-duo CJ’s Place Duo Exhibition with Jake Kent at Gr_und, Berlin 17.09.2022 – 15.10.2022 <img width="2500" height="3751" width_o="2500" height_o="3751" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a78607448ab8ca117a65f44cc45d7667469e5edf0fe7c8963f390631a6e454c7/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-01.jpg" data-mid="201023463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a78607448ab8ca117a65f44cc45d7667469e5edf0fe7c8963f390631a6e454c7/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-01.jpg" />CJ’s PlaceExhibition view<img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bac9e757205b0e4f816b07e9a683c85bc2574f428bf8ea541bb22b3bd666f05/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-03.jpg" data-mid="201023484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bac9e757205b0e4f816b07e9a683c85bc2574f428bf8ea541bb22b3bd666f05/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-03.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31e9ccbd6745efd3eb71406f6f1994971fede2458306406010153604364a71d6/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-05bis.jpg" data-mid="201023513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31e9ccbd6745efd3eb71406f6f1994971fede2458306406010153604364a71d6/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-05bis.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1e8a53ae848a8158fea3437529e88aae8a1b6535df7c5cb5d52d08624ed9ce9/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-06.jpg" data-mid="201023521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1e8a53ae848a8158fea3437529e88aae8a1b6535df7c5cb5d52d08624ed9ce9/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-06.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan Volksbank, May 2018 (My Bank Manager has Anxiety), 2022 Silkscreen print on canvas, 190 x 130 cm <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85a84d9110e9919b097e8dc9c2abffc7b0a1d6259438b33947fb839667e5abfb/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-07.jpg" data-mid="201023524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85a84d9110e9919b097e8dc9c2abffc7b0a1d6259438b33947fb839667e5abfb/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-07.jpg" />CJ’s PlaceExhibition view <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/065a654478fc8a678227593a94281c69b92d8e973344fd60444117b5fd1a1402/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-10.jpg" data-mid="201025816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/065a654478fc8a678227593a94281c69b92d8e973344fd60444117b5fd1a1402/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-10.jpg" /> Jake Kent It’s Good to be a Weed, 2022 Glazed ceramics, welded steel, dimensions variable <img width="2500" height="3751" width_o="2500" height_o="3751" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b62dd2a8536d79d1ecd029c605972526ef0acfca07a58b016a2a4ef6eda01dec/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-08.jpg" data-mid="201023527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b62dd2a8536d79d1ecd029c605972526ef0acfca07a58b016a2a4ef6eda01dec/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-08.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Memory foam (Bonne Nouvelle), 2022 Wood, paint, varnish, metal, foam, fabric, 90 x 140 x 160 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15784e5fc1b69eb5c0115c084b11e5d864d8ffc2b9030733bcc23d7bc71fe869/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-09.jpg" data-mid="201023562" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15784e5fc1b69eb5c0115c084b11e5d864d8ffc2b9030733bcc23d7bc71fe869/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-09.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Memory foam (Bonne Nouvelle), 2022 details <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8780056b93c6a58a58ec62a5be948228c6eec91673fb61af922aff65312b3be/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-13.jpg" data-mid="201023564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8780056b93c6a58a58ec62a5be948228c6eec91673fb61af922aff65312b3be/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-13.jpg" />Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan 24hr Flower Picking Dyslexic Ass Eaters Against Private Property, 2022 Silkscreen print on canvas, 190 x 130 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b6f9c26305285445b36fdf06175412ff9c8add95257ce25a36dc3db07ba1b2d/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-12.jpg" data-mid="201023567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b6f9c26305285445b36fdf06175412ff9c8add95257ce25a36dc3db07ba1b2d/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-12.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f954b0b077399f5f78925346d4bbfbaf853c0998e71622306d601b594ec05ccf/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-16.jpg" data-mid="201023601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f954b0b077399f5f78925346d4bbfbaf853c0998e71622306d601b594ec05ccf/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-16.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/394e343d3635cf520c04b7d9f1d2160b8059136d6c308289cf3e3f463802ef5b/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-17.jpg" data-mid="201025830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/394e343d3635cf520c04b7d9f1d2160b8059136d6c308289cf3e3f463802ef5b/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-17.jpg" /> Jake Kent Cosplay Hippie Flowers, 2022 Glazed ceramics, welded steel, dimensions variable <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82abf067a71a182f4ee814aefcf950dd0989c32710ee7bd2775b8d6433985c62/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-14.jpg" data-mid="201025871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82abf067a71a182f4ee814aefcf950dd0989c32710ee7bd2775b8d6433985c62/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-14.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/086dc76c50ec8028992be39439ea8d167ca2ed6e715720d7449e6028f6a3d830/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-15.jpg" data-mid="201023602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/086dc76c50ec8028992be39439ea8d167ca2ed6e715720d7449e6028f6a3d830/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-15.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan A Tiny House in the Trash Pile, 2022 Silkscreen print on canvas, 190 x 130 cm <img width="3858" height="2500" width_o="3858" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e93e2e535e4dd1cab21172ec83e754b2f9fd8cd9270f904ae719992235e59e5f/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-18.jpg" data-mid="201023607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e93e2e535e4dd1cab21172ec83e754b2f9fd8cd9270f904ae719992235e59e5f/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-18.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Memory foam (Turk &amp; Taylor), 2022 Wood, paint, varnish, metal, foam, fabric, 80 x 125 x 135 cm<img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f0c4cf75134943a49dfdbc7dd5be5f81d1c53d7bfabd006a4989f8129218118/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-19.jpg" data-mid="201023611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f0c4cf75134943a49dfdbc7dd5be5f81d1c53d7bfabd006a4989f8129218118/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-19.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Memory foam (Turk &amp; Taylor), 2022 details <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/033d523f23da88cf18ebb7e2f3af49c52ac569dbdec9eeca2325de7429dec2a2/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-20.jpg" data-mid="201023618" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/033d523f23da88cf18ebb7e2f3af49c52ac569dbdec9eeca2325de7429dec2a2/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-20.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1f8a959024e652808f6e9fc3f4fb34f37f190514d5a64fdac98c1ab6833e17b/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-21.jpg" data-mid="201023623" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1f8a959024e652808f6e9fc3f4fb34f37f190514d5a64fdac98c1ab6833e17b/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-21.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan Acid Reflux for the Landlord, 2022 Silkscreen print on canvas, 190 x 130 cm <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa58650e7e1ebc59e580b44e96ffb14feea56a8569c8fe7aa2d7fef80c14cc7c/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-22.jpg" data-mid="201023729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa58650e7e1ebc59e580b44e96ffb14feea56a8569c8fe7aa2d7fef80c14cc7c/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-22.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f483b58b1c868998b47e5e9891c5641a62c326ba948274f4fa63234be8155b1/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-23.jpg" data-mid="201023734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f483b58b1c868998b47e5e9891c5641a62c326ba948274f4fa63234be8155b1/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-23.jpg" /> Jake Kent &amp; Claude Eigan World Peace in the Unemployed Anarcho-pacifist Commune, 2022 Silkscreen print on canvas, 190 x 130 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fb2a425332fe95098f7712711281a029a1a33b5cd05301145d1884f19204447/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-24.jpg" data-mid="201023745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fb2a425332fe95098f7712711281a029a1a33b5cd05301145d1884f19204447/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-24.jpg" />Claude Eigan Memory foam (9th &amp; Harrison), 2022 Wood, paint, varnish, metal, foam, fabric, 90 x 140 x 160 cm <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82190db0583cc4a612e147804649103c6e9138ffa7e7bbe943331c21da2a1850/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-25.jpg" data-mid="201023786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82190db0583cc4a612e147804649103c6e9138ffa7e7bbe943331c21da2a1850/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-25.jpg" /> Claude Eigan Memory foam (9th &amp; Harrison), 2022 details <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75cb024c3eec5dc993768ad9b2c16cef434f7b1fc7a6c3137b7db4ad219abcd6/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-27.jpg" data-mid="201025882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75cb024c3eec5dc993768ad9b2c16cef434f7b1fc7a6c3137b7db4ad219abcd6/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-27.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eebeb8f99c432851d2547eb11246fa703c48a878c1b6fe6ab76c4f3d1934cb44/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-28.jpg" data-mid="201023899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eebeb8f99c432851d2547eb11246fa703c48a878c1b6fe6ab76c4f3d1934cb44/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-28.jpg" />Claude Eigan Sea street lovers, 2022 Cardboard, acrylic resin, primer, paint, varnish, dimensions variable <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e873f6f7bced3895ca312283b414004d7f4ba8f85cf07dc8696f8111651a596/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-30.jpg" data-mid="201024691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e873f6f7bced3895ca312283b414004d7f4ba8f85cf07dc8696f8111651a596/CLAUDEEIGAN_JAKEKENTGr_und-30.jpg" /> CJ’s Place As squatters we would take over a house that had been empty a year or many. We’d break the door open and a gust of dust would wheeze out along with the dead dream of somebody’s investment, motes and figures accumulating in the unmade silence while the speculators waited for the market to crash or to cash in their flats. But nothing is worth a shit if all it’s worth is money, and the empty houses all knew it too, sad city drool in the rainpipes and the door mawsscowling shut. When we took over the house we would pull all our chairs in there. Maybe a mattress or a horseshoe for luck, some flowers someone found outside a restaurant. You and me drinking our beers in there and looking out the windows on to the new street. Everyone living on stale loaves and chickpeas until one day someone cooks up a pot of stew and after that we take it in turns.The old dust gets bright and wet with the smell of cooking and people start bringing their lovers back and we’re calling it home. And slowly, the house stops its long sulk and we all start to go about living/ there. It always felt fucked up when we had to go.As a matter of principle we resisted the charge,mainly because it didn’t feel true; what is a rightful tenant after all but someone who does the daily work of living somewhere? But every time we’d lose or nearly. All those chairs out on the street looking like what happens when you don’t do what you’re told, and the property cops strong-arming their way through the spaces we called bedrooms and tearing out the furnish like it’s personal. And then we’d move along, and we’d start again.They always get the house but we have, we have,we have our * I didn’t know another way to do it. Didn’t know which cupboard I should use or if I’d fit inside it otherwise. So I made a new thing from an old thing and it changes all the time but it alway goes a little bit like this: We move into an empty house. This time we pay the money and we sign down and gather.Buy-to-lets are like neglected animals, silent &amp; skittish: you walk around the cold open rooms made up all nice but you know it’s still just a sell until you find a chair out on the street and pull it inside. People bring their lovers home and start cooking dinner there. You and me drinking our beers in there and we’re cooking dinner for lovers and friends and the guests from elsewhere or just for one another and inevitably it starts that we go/ about/ living/ until the market crash means cash for flats, and all our chairs sitting out on the street. But the lovers and friends and the guests from elsewhere/ are what we have left/inn/ it because They always get the house. But we have, we have, we have our – Text by Jesse Darling for CJ's place, 2022 All documentation by James Verhille https://claudeeigan.fr/Anything-goes-when-in-love Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:35:12 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/Anything-goes-when-in-love Anything goes when in love Group Exhibition with Claude Eigan, Sári Ember, Monika Grabuschnigg, Eliška Konečná White &amp; Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia Curated by Michal Stolárik 21.07.2022 – 02.09.2022 <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05ffe6205104ef3560ba907cfa9369a9ed99edc221883fbe06f6bd787290fca6/01ClaudeEiganAGWIL4.jpg" data-mid="201179329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05ffe6205104ef3560ba907cfa9369a9ed99edc221883fbe06f6bd787290fca6/01ClaudeEiganAGWIL4.jpg" /><img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c75dba5e8b728f3fda2a92dc06479ca22501079afaddbad9843029db4f1aca7/03ClaudeEiganAGWIL5.jpg" data-mid="201179331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c75dba5e8b728f3fda2a92dc06479ca22501079afaddbad9843029db4f1aca7/03ClaudeEiganAGWIL5.jpg" />Anything goes when in loveExhibition view <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f0ea202f6f60bbbe22e44e8688066e4d768dc841c93adba457342de93f21356/ClaudeEiganAGWIL23.jpg" data-mid="201182480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f0ea202f6f60bbbe22e44e8688066e4d768dc841c93adba457342de93f21356/ClaudeEiganAGWIL23.jpg" /> <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c5041fde30e8a35d40219fc3e564e9a1989ed76ac73a81965ed7e7c0aef54d7/ClaudeEiganAGWIL22.jpg" data-mid="201182479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c5041fde30e8a35d40219fc3e564e9a1989ed76ac73a81965ed7e7c0aef54d7/ClaudeEiganAGWIL22.jpg" /> <img width="2752" height="4128" width_o="2752" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/216429230cdcf744082fa297bc348b3c3d2150d22410100b6bb3a243fd0463cf/ClaudeEiganAGWIL24.jpg" data-mid="201182481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/216429230cdcf744082fa297bc348b3c3d2150d22410100b6bb3a243fd0463cf/ClaudeEiganAGWIL24.jpg" />Sea street lovers, 2022Cardboard, acrylic resin, primer, paint, varnish, 40 x 24 x 15 cm each <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3d046e3519973f3805915d47232a100d8bc24518eba4cce6369a13b76e865ea/02ClaudeEiganAGWIL6.jpg" data-mid="201179330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3d046e3519973f3805915d47232a100d8bc24518eba4cce6369a13b76e865ea/02ClaudeEiganAGWIL6.jpg" />Anything goes when in loveExhibition view <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b91bfe8d6d093527c042ae78fb4e8262a605db0d85994dc96982b69d4bbd4932/ClaudeEiganAGWIL7.jpg" data-mid="201180281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b91bfe8d6d093527c042ae78fb4e8262a605db0d85994dc96982b69d4bbd4932/ClaudeEiganAGWIL7.jpg" />Supper Host, 2020Glazed ceramics, copper, metal, variable dimensions <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff2a65a0b33b240e1e5cc55ea7161c8806cee1a01cdf77c25885d01d9f03ea56/ClaudeEiganAGWIL15.jpg" data-mid="201180377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff2a65a0b33b240e1e5cc55ea7161c8806cee1a01cdf77c25885d01d9f03ea56/ClaudeEiganAGWIL15.jpg" />Supper Host, 2020Glazed ceramics, copper, metal, variable dimensions <img width="2752" height="4128" width_o="2752" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f327f17fb7b86f992184935177b2f1a118212be1dfb8861496b400aa7516dead/ClaudeEiganAGWIL8.jpg" data-mid="201180373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f327f17fb7b86f992184935177b2f1a118212be1dfb8861496b400aa7516dead/ClaudeEiganAGWIL8.jpg" /> <img width="4128" height="2752" width_o="4128" height_o="2752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b8005f00424aea47144157f80ffb6f29245bac9073ccaf598b02680af96e118/ClaudeEiganAGWIL12.jpg" data-mid="201180381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b8005f00424aea47144157f80ffb6f29245bac9073ccaf598b02680af96e118/ClaudeEiganAGWIL12.jpg" /> <img width="2752" height="4128" width_o="2752" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3470a4a5a7f1e89bfc31ec37de35091122746e722dd81835a4ed90b74b59ecc/ClaudeEiganAGWIL13.jpg" data-mid="201180384" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/431cd5d7c5d49a7508ea8aa7ac403425b256e37e42f320722e87ea52c46d68c2/ClaudeEiganAGWIL16.jpg" data-mid="201180455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/431cd5d7c5d49a7508ea8aa7ac403425b256e37e42f320722e87ea52c46d68c2/ClaudeEiganAGWIL16.jpg" /> <img width="2752" height="4128" width_o="2752" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce26d68268fa7afb1ebb69c3ef10eed107dec6822cf0211ddd1327c7621ad080/ClaudeEiganAGWIL20.jpg" data-mid="201181283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce26d68268fa7afb1ebb69c3ef10eed107dec6822cf0211ddd1327c7621ad080/ClaudeEiganAGWIL20.jpg" /> <img width="2752" height="4128" width_o="2752" height_o="4128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c13ec0366adcacaee5f3be86099c5d252f5a171acb9309b1089b1887f7d9d984/ClaudeEiganAGWIL18.jpg" data-mid="201180457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c13ec0366adcacaee5f3be86099c5d252f5a171acb9309b1089b1887f7d9d984/ClaudeEiganAGWIL18.jpg" /> Anything goes when in love Curated by Michal Stolárik Exhibition&nbsp;Anything goes when in love is the fourth contribution to the Anything goes series – projects that have annually populated the White &amp; Weiss Gallery in Bratislava since 2019. Simple plot lines are used for presenting current trends in contemporary European visual arts, connecting and stimulating artistic scenes and the activities of their representatives. Previous three exhibition cycles – Anything goes (2019, artists: Svetlana Fialová, Pavla Malinová, Nana Mandl, Titania Seidl), Anything goes pt. 2: Techno ed.(2020, artists: Botond Keresztesi, Nika Kupyrova, Alex Selmeci &amp; Tomáš Kocka Jusko, Céline Struger, Nik Timková) and Anything goes pt. 3: Phoenix(2021, artists: Radek Brousil, Filip Dvořák, Šimon Chovan, Ádám Horváth, Lukas Thaler &amp; Titania Seidl, Adam Šakový) prove the potential of exhibition set ups inducing positive reactions, mutual confrontations of artworks, and creatively stimulating dialogues. Although local audiences often embrace only the works of local artists, it is the very connections between local and international artwork, or premiere introductions of international artists in Slovakia that has become the key of this curator’s series. Anything goes when in love – is an international exhibition, a seemingly visual essay reacting to issues of relationships, affinity, sympathies, or antipathies. The title itself, potentially a&nbsp;subtitle for any romantic comedy from the beginning of this century is rather ironic. It actually outlines the possible concept of a&nbsp;relationship, things it brings about. Be it a trivial attraction between humans, a&nbsp;natural inclination towards what we think we need, or an increasingly present affinity towards objects stealing our attention - relationships may be magnificent, filled with optimism or paratrophic and toxic with fatal consequences. Thus, this exhibition is not a&nbsp;mere romanticizing love story. Insinuated ideas of relationships become an ambivalent emotional ride, following the connections and mutual effects of objects, humans or animals. It offers a&nbsp;natural account of intimacy, inexplicable attraction, parasitisation, conscious or unconscious dependencies, natural gravitation and forbidden fruit. The curator’s project represents current trends in the production of internationally active artists– Claude Eigan (France, based in Berlin), Sári Ember (Brazil, lives and works in Budapest), Monika Grabuschnigg (Austria, lives and works in Berlin) and Eliška Konečná (Czech Republic, lives and works in Prague). Their individual works depict topics directly linked to relationships, mainly through styled figural motifs, though original symbolism, metaphorical scenes or personal mythologies represent a significant part of the selection that embodies the current update of traditional artistic techniques such as ceramics, drawing, textile or ceramic paintings. Creation of most of the artworks was prompted by this exhibition. They are characterized by formal appropriations followed by the ideological repositioning of the context of original prototypes. Comeback to nature, ephemeral situations and organic materials is clearly present. One can observe bewilderment by craft, joy from physical contact with the materials used – all in stark contrast to the digitalization of the world (and) arts. Exhibited works communicate through universal language, though inspired by intimacy or personal experiences to a great extent. They are based in history and myths, spotted and processed through the principles of pop culture. Yet again, anything goes... &nbsp; The minimalistically tuned, albeit ample installation by Claude Eigan (b. 1983, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, live and work in Berlin) opens the exhibition. Their productions are characterised by an attraction to sculptures, inspired by contemporary poetry, objects of daily life as well as various biological materials chosen from their natural environment. Then they deconstruct them, monumentalize them, transforming their colours and forms. Anxious jittery feelings resulting from a twisted reality come as a result; reality that takes over familiar details or specific elements activating the memory and stimulating personal imagination. A parasitic series of elegant ceramic objects Supper Host (2020) spreads on the gallery walls, luring us with its organic, shiny shapes and glossy enamels. A closer look unveils styled bodies of ticks – parasites searching for their hosts and sucking on their blood. The odds are high one could contract a disease from them, which naturally defines this as a one-way beneficial relationship, but still, their attractive look is dangerously captivating. The installation is combined with a monumentalized trivial object: a beer cap (Sea Street Lovers, 2022) inspired by this exhibition. Eigan transform it into a surreal vision of pearl shells intentionally positioned somewhere on the brink of a kiss and a bite. Eigan create a romantic and ironic ode to summer (or efemeral) love adventures from the sizzling streets of Berlin. Photography by Adam Šakový https://claudeeigan.fr/AB7-Eclipse-Athens-Biennale Sun, 07 Jan 2024 17:57:40 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/AB7-Eclipse-Athens-Biennale AB7 Eclipse, Athens Biennale 2021 Curated by Omsk Social Club &amp; Larry Ossei-Mensah 24.09.21 - 28.11.21 <img width="2571" height="1714" width_o="2571" height_o="1714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3f8b336c16c02fab44543647dc9efc538e6a03031ad5ad5d1bd95260d09ff87/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-15web.jpg" data-mid="201022252" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3f8b336c16c02fab44543647dc9efc538e6a03031ad5ad5d1bd95260d09ff87/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-15web.jpg" /> AB7 Eclipse Exhibition view<img width="2441" height="1628" width_o="2441" height_o="1628" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50a27b0afc743250bea571d72683dba6fb20245a2459c6069683211e0b19797f/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-6web.jpg" data-mid="201022281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50a27b0afc743250bea571d72683dba6fb20245a2459c6069683211e0b19797f/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-6web.jpg" /> <img width="2571" height="1714" width_o="2571" height_o="1714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50b379ce343dd72789d606d38b832b92cff3cab397775e4d7220b776590cef66/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-16_web.jpg" data-mid="201022283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50b379ce343dd72789d606d38b832b92cff3cab397775e4d7220b776590cef66/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-16_web.jpg" /> Inner Saboteur II, 2019Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, 140 x 50 x 100 cm <img width="2571" height="1714" width_o="2571" height_o="1714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abb7930cf48f68d3fe11f653c2f616a567b236b0b13092d9a37e682a13206e51/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-12web.jpg" data-mid="201022282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abb7930cf48f68d3fe11f653c2f616a567b236b0b13092d9a37e682a13206e51/Eigan_photo-Nysos-Vasilopoulos-12web.jpg" /> Inner Saboteur III, 2020Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, 133 x 42 x 83 cm Inner Saboteur (I, II, III Extraction is a common strategy in art making, its an instinctual purge from the immaterial mind into a form to be understood by the other. Yet Inner Saboteur is more about the strategy to avulse one’s own mind; the creator’s mind. The sculptural yogic convulsions, three beheaded guttural bodies retch and contract on their knees. It’s ambiguous to the viewer if they are in some domestic labour routine or dutifully praying to an unseen god. Bolted to the floor half-sphinx half-gut their green skin testifies to something not of this world. Yet their bodies know the contemporary mantra only too well… This world is one of holding one’s stomach, the jarring daily bread that is fed to us from the vectors of media. Cause gastro gut-wrenching panics that suffocate our true inner emotions. Our intuition has been skinned from this organ in favour of echo chambers, identity politics and mediated coverage. This lost sentiment of trusting oneself can be seen further in the sculptures when likening them to the ancient image of Narcissus, the sculptural forms of Inner Saboteur bend down looking into an imaginary pool, only they are headless. They can never recognise themselves with no eyes or mind in which to form their own portraits. They only gape from their guttural perspective- in a state of futility, not to dissimilarity to the self-images we are surrounded by in our own media pools. We see more and more of our own image today but in turn, we seem to have less and less connection with it. Locked in an endless reflective pool just as Narcissus was. We pine our lives away silently, watching as our gut eats itself - sated on its own breath. As the French philosopher, mystic and political activist Simone Weil once said: “Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.” Eigan’s sculptural beings give us that opportunity of detachment as we stand looking down at our own subconscious shadows, watching them nauseate on our own lives. Text by Omsk Social Club for AB7 Eclipse, Athens Biennale 2021 Inner Saboteur I, 2019Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish 170 x 80 x 45 cm Inner Saboteur II, 2019Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish140 x 50 x 100 cm Inner Saboteur III, 2020Wood, styrofoam, resin, plaster, paint, varnish133 x 42 x 83 cm https://claudeeigan.fr/dandelion-menace-solo Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:04:34 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/dandelion-menace-solo dandelion menace Solo Exhibition at Artemis Fontana, ParisCurated by Thomas Conchou&nbsp; 05.06.2021 – 26.06.2021 <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/468c3858182958ed955598639f93a484db540fc928f734100895397695af9d37/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-01.jpg" data-mid="117393908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/468c3858182958ed955598639f93a484db540fc928f734100895397695af9d37/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-01.jpg" />dandelion menaceExhibition view <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2d7ce1af343107a2ca23ea9bd608646bc41cde998e624d9a3fbfa848785bd78/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-14.jpg" data-mid="117393923" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2d7ce1af343107a2ca23ea9bd608646bc41cde998e624d9a3fbfa848785bd78/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-14.jpg" /> <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12a677e2fbaec05dec14c256686d784431be31059afd38ed6b69b04c176d591a/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-16.jpg" data-mid="117393926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12a677e2fbaec05dec14c256686d784431be31059afd38ed6b69b04c176d591a/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-16.jpg" />Pissed (FLINTA dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 50 x 22 cm <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca783d2eabfb9c1d658f94e5582ddccc6dbf49241c01a2d70f4dbc655ec67a0a/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-09.jpg" data-mid="117393917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca783d2eabfb9c1d658f94e5582ddccc6dbf49241c01a2d70f4dbc655ec67a0a/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-09.jpg" /> <img width="2142" height="3213" width_o="2142" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db9af53ab3f43a796108f2cc53a24c1f59caa7e58cde5be81a18420b04a89910/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-08.jpg" data-mid="117393916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db9af53ab3f43a796108f2cc53a24c1f59caa7e58cde5be81a18420b04a89910/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-08.jpg" />Up: Soft and Stone and High (M), 2020 Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal,&nbsp;143 x 48 x 30 cm Down: Soft and Stone and High (ER), 2020Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal, 98 x 57 x 50 cm <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a6de2c1261d8ccdf059966d9f64211c56c5f413af1c133c76838cf10d5e8cb4/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-03.jpg" data-mid="117393911" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a6de2c1261d8ccdf059966d9f64211c56c5f413af1c133c76838cf10d5e8cb4/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-03.jpg" /><img width="2142" height="3213" width_o="2142" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9b4b4d2947fd09894548c186fe4296171efe46793e6121b593471d7256d75dd/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-05.jpg" data-mid="117393913" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9b4b4d2947fd09894548c186fe4296171efe46793e6121b593471d7256d75dd/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-05.jpg" /> <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/101a117f6a8565de21ff619d7de56a97c4a3e4c11bee9396b97488289bbe7c2e/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-13.jpg" data-mid="117393922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/101a117f6a8565de21ff619d7de56a97c4a3e4c11bee9396b97488289bbe7c2e/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-13.jpg" /> Pissed (Butler’s dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 63 x 20 cm <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/352439b9739fa7f0cc945a991a91c5e3d5420245c0fbedd6199519c0a627aa46/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-02.jpg" data-mid="117393910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/352439b9739fa7f0cc945a991a91c5e3d5420245c0fbedd6199519c0a627aa46/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-02.jpg" /> Left: Soft and Stone and High (MJ), 2020 Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal, 84 x 36 x 35 cm Middle: Soft and Stone and High (LA), 2020 Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal, 107 x 57 x 35 cm Right: Soft and Stone and High (ND), 2020 Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal, 40 x 80 x 44 cm <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5605a59be42145e1c6655a4ec8f0e22949b422a0cfdef192834c894e088358f1/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-04.jpg" data-mid="117393912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5605a59be42145e1c6655a4ec8f0e22949b422a0cfdef192834c894e088358f1/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-04.jpg" /> <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c41bb6ac1f7c4024c39b600f34dd408120c2dcfa534e225e6a236382460fc372/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-11.jpg" data-mid="117393919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c41bb6ac1f7c4024c39b600f34dd408120c2dcfa534e225e6a236382460fc372/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-11.jpg" /> under no king (1 &amp; 2), 2021Resin, painted wood, varnish, dead lily, strap, steel, 76 x 76 x 6 cm under no king (3 &amp; 4), 2021Resin, painted wood, varnish, dead lily, strap, steel, 56 x 66 x 6 cm <img width="3213" height="2597" width_o="3213" height_o="2597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a40745335a294565db5596c2371c07d798c81ca43acfd9e2b87644f8ae19ccbc/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-1108_v2insta.jpg" data-mid="117394018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a40745335a294565db5596c2371c07d798c81ca43acfd9e2b87644f8ae19ccbc/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-1108_v2insta.jpg" /> Right: Soft and Stone and High (AM), 2020 Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal,&nbsp;90 x 60 x 43 cm Left: Soft and Stone and High (AL), 2020 Fabric, resin, plaster, paint, varnish, metal, 73 x 50 x 28 cm <img width="2142" height="3213" width_o="2142" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8bec44f0bc496f47e8e17ada490630e5c5546de5cdb733e876f03555edd2edd/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-12.jpg" data-mid="117393921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8bec44f0bc496f47e8e17ada490630e5c5546de5cdb733e876f03555edd2edd/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-12.jpg" /> <img width="3213" height="2272" width_o="3213" height_o="2272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa989dff82d49a6e12f54551681328a4a7bd5bad2dca67203dbb86516035c89f/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-15.jpg" data-mid="117393924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa989dff82d49a6e12f54551681328a4a7bd5bad2dca67203dbb86516035c89f/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-15.jpg" /> Left: Pissed (Pulp dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 67 x 33 cm Right: Pissed (Baiser 3000 dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 65 x 25 cm Bottom: Pissed (FLINTA dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 50 x 22 cm <img width="2142" height="3213" width_o="2142" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dfc16cd1b899b0a43969a4ecb3863415232edbb9ae271420eb934912af6ae1b/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-10.jpg" data-mid="117393918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dfc16cd1b899b0a43969a4ecb3863415232edbb9ae271420eb934912af6ae1b/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-10.jpg" /> Pissed (Eat Ass dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 66 x 40 cm <img width="3213" height="2597" width_o="3213" height_o="2597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4f0c0dbecf014f183c2c258419ed8cf450c19bd8f6756b9c6f16ba1123a0694/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-1124_v2insta.jpg" data-mid="117394019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4f0c0dbecf014f183c2c258419ed8cf450c19bd8f6756b9c6f16ba1123a0694/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-1124_v2insta.jpg" />dandelion menacePublication <img width="2142" height="3213" width_o="2142" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58c02593211d5af11a41fe8dd9c23264dc8e2e359d8f81be2a713668fe5a6bcc/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-18.jpg" data-mid="117393930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58c02593211d5af11a41fe8dd9c23264dc8e2e359d8f81be2a713668fe5a6bcc/CLAUDEEIGANmargotmontigny-18.jpg" /> dandelion menaceExhibition view dandelion menace curated by Thomas Conchou &nbsp; dandelion menace is Claude Eigan's first monographic exhibition in France. It unfolds around plant presences that form three families: fists bouquets, shields corollas, and wolf trap leaves, all linked to the central figure of taraxacum, which gives the exhibition its title. Commonly called pissenlit in French (piss in bed), in reference to its diuretic properties, this plant with depurative virtues is also called dent-de-lion for its sharp leaves and bushy yellow collar. The works presented at Artemis Fontana all trace, in their own way, the emotional coordinates of the artist. The fists of their friends and relatives make up the intertwined cornucopias in the series Soft and Stone and High, 2020, chimerical presences oscillating between the floral and the aquatic: somewhat plants, somewhat mermaids. The outlines of Berlin's pavements inhabit the series under no kings, 2021, composed of wall pieces arranged in a defensive formation. Straps in the back allow them to be worn on the arm while brandishing white and purple fleur-de-lis, placed upside down in a cheeky misuse of royal and religious emblems. Finally, the coordinates of LGBTQIA+ places dear to the artist adorn the laughing jaws of the dandelion’s leaves in the series Pissed, 2021, alongside queer slogans and symbols. Here, the flowers have left their lustful attitudes and have become sharp, ready to sting, defend and attack. Just as Hammurabi's code enshrined the saying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" in Babylon, Claude Eigan's works appropriate the Pink Panthers Patrol's famous "Bash Back!": they reclaim rage as a political space, and explore the continuum of threat, violence, and retribution from a minoritarian position. These flowers of resilience give shape to a garden of self-defense, where the dialectic between the representation of violence and violent action unfolds like the two sides of a labrys, the double-bladed axe used by the Minoan civilization as a religious symbol; historically associated with the Amazons, it was adopted in the 70s by lesbian feminist movements and placed on their flags. The hovering violence surrounding dandelion menace works as a symbolic threat, residing more in the anticipation of its implementation rather than in its action. Rather, we are left with a disarmed threat, and the imminence of a different future. Of the solar, royal, and masculine symbol of the lion, assumed to bring honor to its vegetal look-alike, Claude retains nothing. Instead, they choose to put forward the vivacious and urban characteristics of the dandelion: capable of growing between the cracks of concrete, the cobblestones of the streets, and through the tar. Placing itself in a post-humanist perspective, the exhibition argues for the definition of complex, inclusive, and shifting political subjects that account for the vulnerability of bodies, and calls for a future where rage, violence, and anger have become historical cultural practices, whose necessity has faded. Text by Thomas Conchou, 2021 All pictures copyright Margot Montigny https://claudeeigan.fr/Caniveau-Grove-solo Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:21:57 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/Caniveau-Grove-solo Caniveau Grove Solo Exhibition at VUNU gallery, Košice, SlovakiaCurated by Christina Gigliotti&nbsp;The show includes a collaborative piece with artist Johann Besse26.05.2021 – 30.07.2021 <img width="5824" height="3875" width_o="5824" height_o="3875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a76965c78ebf245df625dcb149d316cc8546655b7e0677cb22ba24b5d361ecfe/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_01.jpg" data-mid="117398042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a76965c78ebf245df625dcb149d316cc8546655b7e0677cb22ba24b5d361ecfe/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_01.jpg" />Caniveau GroveExhibition view <img width="3875" height="5824" width_o="3875" height_o="5824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77311379e4f03e12df80313441278f7bad20f32bbe251b886ba2fa9ee9f7ca72/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_02.jpg" data-mid="117398043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77311379e4f03e12df80313441278f7bad20f32bbe251b886ba2fa9ee9f7ca72/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_02.jpg" />Mud Bird (1 &amp; 2), 2020 Styrofoam, metal, resin, plaster, paint, white wine 76 x 80 x 108 cm &amp; 50 x 45 x 60 cm <img width="3743" height="5625" width_o="3743" height_o="5625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf97601e4f82eeed72a7beb07e5c21424a0da5effeec1fb6b543af3304a8ffac/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_03.jpg" data-mid="117398044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf97601e4f82eeed72a7beb07e5c21424a0da5effeec1fb6b543af3304a8ffac/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_03.jpg" /> Mud Bird (1), 2020 detail<img width="5824" height="3875" width_o="5824" height_o="3875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b62de3bd1cd0109e2af141b73526d05f987d11271f373a42889f242475f2edf4/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_04.jpg" data-mid="117398045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b62de3bd1cd0109e2af141b73526d05f987d11271f373a42889f242475f2edf4/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_04.jpg" /> Claude Eigan and Johann Besse Caniveau Grove, 2020 Digital print on mesh tarpaulin 620 x 320 cm Claude Eigan Mud Bird (3 &amp; 4), 2020 Styrofoam, metal, resin, plaster, paint 75 x 65 x 90 cm &amp; 70 x 65 x 80 cm <img width="5824" height="3875" width_o="5824" height_o="3875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4135cf3b81a78c430c2939c4d4b9b82b0e301acfbed6975d1763414ed1b261d3/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_05.jpg" data-mid="117398046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4135cf3b81a78c430c2939c4d4b9b82b0e301acfbed6975d1763414ed1b261d3/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_05.jpg" /> <img width="3875" height="5824" width_o="3875" height_o="5824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ef30b546b4351b564f7be194d6ff1395a0674081e89c3704a555192de0d626c/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_06.jpg" data-mid="117398047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ef30b546b4351b564f7be194d6ff1395a0674081e89c3704a555192de0d626c/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_06.jpg" />Claude Eigan and Johann Besse Caniveau Grove, 2020 Digital print on mesh tarpaulin 620 x 320 cm Claude Eigan Mud Bird (3), 2020 Styrofoam, metal, resin, plaster, paint 75 x 65 x 90 cm <img width="3875" height="5824" width_o="3875" height_o="5824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a58512013d635a4b04acae77173158f0b4dd0402880b51ecd265a7614b1c67fa/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_07.jpg" data-mid="117398048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a58512013d635a4b04acae77173158f0b4dd0402880b51ecd265a7614b1c67fa/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_07.jpg" /> Claude Eigan and Johann Besse Caniveau Grove, 2020Digital print on mesh tarpaulin 620 x 320 cmClaude Eigan Mud Bird (3), 2020 detail <img width="4327" height="2879" width_o="4327" height_o="2879" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65d7b234e81a0f67b9a91a37093fdc44fc9a41f70ec005aae8ce8d7305e5a261/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_08.jpg" data-mid="117398049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65d7b234e81a0f67b9a91a37093fdc44fc9a41f70ec005aae8ce8d7305e5a261/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_08.jpg" />Supper Host, 2020 Glazed ceramic, copper, metal, white wine, various dimensions <img width="4327" height="2879" width_o="4327" height_o="2879" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52f34a8e61aa2afb3e78195bf455657183b9834d06a7f211f44dd548d21d05cf/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_09.jpg" data-mid="117398050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52f34a8e61aa2afb3e78195bf455657183b9834d06a7f211f44dd548d21d05cf/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_09.jpg" /> Supper Host, 2020Glazed ceramic, copper, metal, white wine, various dimensions <img width="5352" height="3561" width_o="5352" height_o="3561" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c7d0c7f771d307994ed07068ccae66d995d240c54f77453be8a6c4057548df0/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_10.jpg" data-mid="117398051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c7d0c7f771d307994ed07068ccae66d995d240c54f77453be8a6c4057548df0/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_10.jpg" /> <img width="5275" height="3510" width_o="5275" height_o="3510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/079257623888e4aedaed7e8b9c231088113fe4339920e2f36271f1c64f126355/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_11.jpg" data-mid="117398052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/079257623888e4aedaed7e8b9c231088113fe4339920e2f36271f1c64f126355/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_11.jpg" /> <img width="3875" height="5825" width_o="3875" height_o="5825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/933dade55f20dff09e0fef866d58b51d76d72bd8a58c597bf401979033ef081b/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_12.jpg" data-mid="117398053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/933dade55f20dff09e0fef866d58b51d76d72bd8a58c597bf401979033ef081b/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_12.jpg" />Mud Bird (2), 2020 Styrofoam, metal, resin, plaster, paint, 50 x 45 x 60 cm <img width="3657" height="5496" width_o="3657" height_o="5496" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/605de326795f0d5e567fec0387a9e317ae9e5b3c6c5f58ef345e886a6dcb059c/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_13.jpg" data-mid="117398054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/605de326795f0d5e567fec0387a9e317ae9e5b3c6c5f58ef345e886a6dcb059c/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_13.jpg" />Mud Bird (1), 2020 Styrofoam, metal, resin, plaster, paint, white wine, 76 x 80 x 108 cm<img width="5824" height="3875" width_o="5824" height_o="3875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5332fb225ba5e0b34f59316ebe776b71db90e069c757a7bae001ee3c636860d/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_14.jpg" data-mid="117398055" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5332fb225ba5e0b34f59316ebe776b71db90e069c757a7bae001ee3c636860d/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_14.jpg" />Mud Bird (1), 2020 detail <img width="4327" height="2879" width_o="4327" height_o="2879" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c55063f29da1ab0fa84da34ff50d0b05aa47f44013a89afd5047d189abea87a/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_15.jpg" data-mid="117398056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c55063f29da1ab0fa84da34ff50d0b05aa47f44013a89afd5047d189abea87a/ClaudeEigan_CaniveauGrove_15.jpg" /> Claude Eigan and Johann Besse Caniveau Grove, 2020 (Detail) Digital print on mesh tarpaulin, 620 x 320 cm Caniveau Grove curated by Christina Gigliotti &nbsp; About four-hundred million years ago, the evolutionary branch that carried both insects and other life-forms, including those that would eventually evolve into humans, split apart. This division, propelled by and made greater with time, has led us to become exceedingly genetically distant to our tiny, buzzing counterparts. That said, the parasitical tendencies found in a variety of insect relations, permeates by-and-large through human society on both micro (personal) and macro (entire populations) levels. What kind of colony is this?Claude Eigan’s Caniveau Grove imagines the many faces of parasitism as a lush, volatile environment where an array of hybrid life-forms scavenge, bite, and adapt their ways to survive. Nestled in this speculative habitat, fluid overflows out from engorged ticks, resting after a big feed. A tang wafts throughout, sweet and appealing. Spindly-legged animals, perhaps descendants of those imagined by the late painter Zdzisław Beksiński, comb the bottom for a drop of nectar and invite us in to join the feast.&nbsp; Text by Christina Gigliotti, 2021 All pictures copyright Tibor Czito https://claudeeigan.fr/the-many-faced-god-dess Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:51:09 +0000 Claude Eigan https://claudeeigan.fr/the-many-faced-god-dess the many faced god·dess Group Exhibition at Maison Populaire Montreuil, MontreuilCurated by Thomas Conchou&nbsp;with Nils Alix-Tabeling, Sabrina Röthlisberger Belkacem, Bye Bye Binary, Ivan Cheng, Claude Eigan, Cédric Esturillo, Brandon Gercara, Tarek Lakhrissi, Élodie Petit, the Queer Ancestor Project, Sin Wai Kin (fka Victoria Sin), Simon Brossard &amp; Julie Villard 19.05.2021 – 11.07.2021 <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84c3344db7602c37d68c178c33fb492ce39c8ccbfac403a943ae8bbb45bc05c6/mp-2021-tha-many-faced-goddess-034-d8904.jpeg" data-mid="118991141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84c3344db7602c37d68c178c33fb492ce39c8ccbfac403a943ae8bbb45bc05c6/mp-2021-tha-many-faced-goddess-034-d8904.jpeg" /> View of the exhibition / Tarek Lakhrissi, Sin Wai Kin (fka Victoria Sin), Claude Eigan, Nils Alix-Tabeling et Brandon Gercara <img width="1462" height="975" width_o="1462" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a629ea985fc34244a7754815284f007d96680b79caab12455e80b00e67ebc07/MP-2021-Tha-Many-Faced-Goddess-036.jpg" data-mid="118991185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a629ea985fc34244a7754815284f007d96680b79caab12455e80b00e67ebc07/MP-2021-Tha-Many-Faced-Goddess-036.jpg" /> View of the exhibition / Claude Eigan, Nils Alix-Tabeling &amp; Brandon Gercara<img width="1462" height="975" width_o="1462" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64548c78f0221c68876a700a0029e87fe02dbbf34aa22451a06b017999e27b0b/MP-2021-Tha-Many-Faced-Goddess-027.jpg" data-mid="118991304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64548c78f0221c68876a700a0029e87fe02dbbf34aa22451a06b017999e27b0b/MP-2021-Tha-Many-Faced-Goddess-027.jpg" /> Claude Eigan / Pissed (Aunt Charlie's dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 68 x 36 x 2 cmClaude Eigan / Pissed (The stud’s dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 37 x 22 x 2 cm <img width="1462" height="975" width_o="1462" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3f74ededf5dcac6531b54203ba66e9dd4300beeb2df6716884f27facb21c3d2/MP-2021-Tha-Many-Faced-Goddess-011.jpg" data-mid="118991326" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3f74ededf5dcac6531b54203ba66e9dd4300beeb2df6716884f27facb21c3d2/MP-2021-Tha-Many-Faced-Goddess-011.jpg" /> Claude Eigan / Pissed (Lex's dandelion), 2021Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 54 x 27 x 2 cm<img width="533" height="800" width_o="533" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7aabfb17d5965d714ecc900c34a96757611d896bc17831dd7b1bd6f23f396ed/mp-2021-tha-many-faced-goddess-002-6e13e.jpeg" data-mid="118991328" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/533/i/b7aabfb17d5965d714ecc900c34a96757611d896bc17831dd7b1bd6f23f396ed/mp-2021-tha-many-faced-goddess-002-6e13e.jpeg" /> Claude Eigan / Owls&nbsp;2019&nbsp;Series of 16 pieces, Self drying clay, paint, varnish, wire, steel tubes Multiple dimensions the many faced god.dess curated by Thomas Conchou &nbsp; While borrowing its title to the faceless, avenging deity of Game of Thrones, the many faced god·dess draws inspiration from the influence of impersonation practices on queer theory and contemporary artistic practices, amongst which drag appears paramount. From the original observations of drag performances leading to Judith Butler’s seminal book Gender Trouble to Elizabeth Freeman’s&nbsp;temporal drag&nbsp;concept, investigating the pull of the past on the present through practices of retrogression, genealogy and memory, drag practices and their sister-practices (cosplay, fandom, comedy, performance, theatricality) create a strategic, politic and reflexive stage, engaging not only with how bodies are constructed but also inhabited and interpreted. But also with how chronopolitics come to play with them : allowing to perform a critical and historical genealogy. The exhibition will gather artistic and amateur practices around the ideas of mask- wearing, summoning ancestors and mythological beings, as well as performing strategic and fractal identities, and will channel a multitude of historical, fictional or contemporary characters, stressing the multiplicity of our belongings, the impermanence of our identities, and the power of our transformations.Text by Thomas Conchou, 2021 All pictures copyright Aurélien Mole Pissed (Aunt Charlie's dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 68 x 36 x 2 cm Pissed (The stud’s dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 37 x 22 x 2 cmPissed (Lex's dandelion), 2021 Pigmented resin, pen, steel, 54 x 27 x 2 cmOwls 2019 Series of 16 pieces Self drying clay, paint, varnish, wire, steel tubesMultiple dimensions