We are pleased to present a collaborative booth with friends Studio/Chapple (London, UK) and Double V Gallery (Marseille / Paris, FR).
Featuring works by Elvire Bondouelle (Double V), Eduardo Antonio, Julie Maurin, Temitayo Shonibare (Studio/Chapple), Louise Oates, Thomas Pellerey Grogan & David Micheaud (Xxijra Hii).
Our dialogue explores the collision and migration of ecologies and cultures, personal and collective memory, boundaries between the natural/artificial and the systemic forces shaping these journeys.
Julie Maurin & Eduardo Antonio distort familiar motifs, layering materials to unearth dreamscapes, childhood memories, and shifting identities. Instability extends into explorations of fragmented narratives, where histories (personal and collective) collide and reassemble. Such as the organic-industrial materials Louise Oates manipulates to reveal unseen systems of control and resistance; brought to life with atomised and flowing liquids, a kinetic activation. Tensions between the constructed and the organic resurface in Elvire Bonduelle’s reimagined domestic objects, playfully undermining the rigidity of social structures. As this cycle unfolds, David Micheaud’s quiet interventions distort the mundane, inviting a sense of the uncanny - the familiar turns fluid, and transformation is inevitable.
The booth is a site of flux, where memory, materiality, and form continually migrate and reconfigure. Engaging with movement as both a conceptual and material force, the works resist static interpretation, offering an evolving dialogue on impermanence, adaptation, and the blurred boundaries between the natural and the constructed. Through this interplay of control and unpredictability, visibility and erasure, the exhibition reflects the precarious balance between ecological fragility and resilience, allowing new forms of meaning to emerge in the space between order and entropy.
In addition, we will be exhibiting Ojo Rojo by Thomas Pellerey Grogan as part of Salon Immateriel.
« Ojo Rojo » is a journey through the making of an artwork which serves as the backdrop for a conversation between two protagonists discussing their persona! connections to the horizon. The video may be considered a kind of road movie, traveling from the roads of the Spanish Basque Country to the coast of Cantabria.
lt portrays scenes of motion and conception, depicting the processes of creating a sculpture soon to be barn. This sculpture is conceived to produce mirages, acting as a horizon target on this journey. lt moves different kinds of reflective surfaces in a looping motion, superimposing these abjects onto the landscapes it encounters as they reflect it back. The work seeks to explore the co-existence of cyclical rituals of grounding and emancipation, suggesting a subtle interplay between the two.
ART-O-RAMA is produced by Fræme, in co-production with La Friche la Belle de Mai.
As a key event and gateway for galleries to European art fairs, Art-o-rama offers a unique and demanding selection of emerging local and international art scenes. More than 60 galleries and publishers will be featured in this 19th edition in Marseille and online with the Immaterial Salon, celebrating a brand new section dedicated to contemporary design, and a special programme of screenings and conversations will be proposed for free access during the Art Fair.
At the centre of a beautiful excitement, Art-o-rama offers each year the panorama of an unequalled cultural heritage, an immersion in the leading artistic places of the wider southern region, from Monaco to Montpellier, passing through Arles, Hyères, Nice and of course Marseille.
Frédéric de Goldschmidt, collector, Brussels
Cédric Fauq, curator, Bordeaux
Marie Madec, gallery owner, sans titre, Paris
Haynes Riley, gallery owner, Good Weather, Chicago / Little Rock / North Little Rock
Joana Roda, gallery owner, Bombon Projects, Barcelona
Sophie Tappeiner, gallery owner, Sophie Tappeiner gallery, Vienna
All enquiries info@xxijrahii.net
