PASSAGES
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
9 RUE JEANNE D'ARC — TROYES
Starting Saturday, January 28, the Passages Contemporary Art Center will host Christian Lhopital’s works. His surprising, extraordinary work is linked to our world as seen through the lens of what some call (de)construction and the current revolution.
Christian Haerdi emphasizes his desire to question the situation of man in the world: man facing himself and facing the world.
“Man’s place is no longer knowledge, but radical ignorance of its foundations, generating an identity crisis.”
The window, in his work, a paradoxical place of possibility within the impossible, embodies this possibility of (re)building an ethical consciousness of the world.
“This work in progress, which inspires intense emotion, is immersed in the sometimes frightening nature of the present and goes beyond it, since its images offer the best possible solution: to project oneself out of this tragedy, which could become, in the long term, a dead end.”
In a text entitled Le hasard organisateur (Organizing Chance), found in Lhopital’s work, we find the relationship between man and the forces that surround him. There is no anecdote, no reference point in time, no direct reference to history. If we feel anxiety, it is because we no longer have any anchor, because our only solution is to let ourselves drift along with chance.”
Christian Lhopital has already organized numerous exhibitions, both solo and group shows, mainly in the Lyon region where he is from.
J-F Laville
