Exo Exo, Paris – Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Liste Presentation

Liste Presentation
Julie Villard & Simon Brossard

Exo Exo, Paris
September 11 – 26, 2020

press release

Liste Presentation, 2020
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Megamix Delight I, 2019
Resin, metal, polyurethane paint, plastic. 170 x 120 x 90 cm

Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Megamix Delight I, detail, 2019
Resin, metal, polyurethane paint, plastic. 170 x 120 x 90 cm

Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Megamix Delight II, 2019
Resin, metal, polyurethane paint, plastic. 160 x 120 x 70 cm

Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Megamix Delight II, detail, 2019
Resin, metal, polyurethane paint, plastic. 160 x 120 x 70 cm

Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Megamix Delight III, 2020
Resin, metal, polyurethane paint, plastic. 100 x 120 x 250 cm

Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, Megamix Delight III, detail, 2020
Resin, metal, polyurethane paint, plastic. 100 x 120 x 250 cm

Liste Presentation, 2020
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Liste Presentation, 2020
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Exo Exo presents a solo exhibition of works by Julie Villard & Simon Brossard, originally planned for Exo Exo’s first participation in Liste Art Fair Basel, now hosted in its space in Paris, due to sanitary precautions.

Julie Villard and Simon Brossard (France, 1992 & 1994) initiated their artistic collaboration in 2016 as they were studying at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy. Their work has been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at Exo Exo, Paris ; Future Gallery, Berlin ; Rabouan Moussion, Paris ; and in group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris ; Plato, Ostrava ; Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna ; Everyday Gallery, Antwerp ; Château du Fëy, Villecien ; 22,48 m2, Paris ; Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels.

‘From a round bolted metallic base grow twisted cable-stems. They are crowned by a head-flower, sort of an oversized wide open mouth with dried up lips. It is hard to say if what is inside the mouth-head is the entrails of this post nuclear vegetal or some decomposing entity, a big knot of silicone extruded bowels. The whole creature glows from a metallic shine : colour car body or beetle belly.
Reminiscent of the formal patina of Art nouveau or flamboyant gothic, these structures’ human size acknowledges their presence straight away, when one encounters them in the physical space, in a worrisome present. We have the eyes and perceptive apparatus of our time ; the images of the Amazonian forest fires and desertification of the lands already printed on our retina. Here are the scorched flowers of capitalocene, the mutated sprouts of a contaminated earth.
The lifeforms develop and flourish according to the mould and the armature, provided by the industrial and post-industrial patterns of late capitalism, which shape the bodies and the minds before even the fiction and science-fiction takes a part in it.’

– Ingrid Luquet Gad