Exo Exo, Paris – Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine)

Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine)
Viktor Timofeev, Jason Benson, Martin Kohout, Eric Veit, Mia Goyette, Hannah Lees, Eloise Bonneviot + Anne De Boer

curated by Florent Delval
Exo Exo, Paris
May 12 - May 19, 2016

press release

Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine), 2016
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Martin Kohout, Skinsmooth v.-2, 2016
Vinyl gloves, cable ties, algua and multiple edible materials

Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine), 2016
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Martin Kohout, Skinsmooth v.-2, 2016
Vinyl gloves, cable ties, algua and multiple edible materials

Mia Goyette, Antifreeze (Fortified Flower Vases), 2012-2016
Recycled bottles, food dye, water, cut flowers

Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine), 2016
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Eric Veit, Lily, white lotus seed, ashwagandha, 20 cc of New York air, 2016
Lily, white lotus seed, ashwagandha, 20 cc of New York air

Eric Veit, Coconut, cinnamon, corn, goose, 2016
Coconut, cinnamon, corn, goose

Hannah Lees, Into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow, 2013
Oyster shells, glass ball, air-drying clay, incense made with magical intent

Viktor Timofeev, 192.168.13.4 (AVANT_GARDENS), 2011
Ink on paper

Viktor Timofeev, Weaver of Dreams (MONSTR0CITY), 2011
Ink on paper

Пикник на обочине (Piknik na obochine), 2016
Exhibition view, Exo Exo, Paris

Jason Benson, Shadow of knotted grief, 2015
Seasonal artificial plants, inkjet on paper, foam core, shell pendant, wire, cable ties, decorative accessories

Eloise Bonneviot + Anne De Boer, Respawn, extract, 2014
HD video, sound

«Our expedition was the first to enter Area X for more than two years, and much of our predecessors’ equipment had rusted, their tents and sheds little more than husks. Looking out over that untroubled landscape, I do not believe any of us could yet see the threat.»

Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation (2014)

«I insist, once again: such intricate links between humans and non humans in complex cosmograms have been described in every single ethnographic monograph but always with the risk of being seen as only “symbolic”. Now it is literal. And that transforms everything, because it means that all field studies are studying devastated sites in crisis. To be on planet Earth at the time of the Anthropocene is not the same thing as being “in nature” at the time of its modernization. Cosmopolitics is now the common situation for all collectives. There is no common world, and yet it has to be composed, nonetheless.»

Bruno Latour, Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene - a personal view of what is to be studied (2014)