For Edgar Sarin, the exhibition is a vast, artificial and carefully orchestrated system that passes through various states of balance. Building on this observation, which he seeks to challenge, the artist employs strategies of occupation which, over time, come to express a desire to establish a presence within a space, caught in the tension between settlement and forced exile.
The chapel of the
Donjon de Vez, whose construction was completed at the end of the 14th century, is marked by the continuity of its function as a place of worship over several centuries before becoming a space where artists from various generations have conceived both permanent and ephemeral interventions.
Guided by the principle of the exhibition as a gesture of connection, since the first exhibition in the now-concluded Objectif Societé cycle, Edgar Sarin will revisit here several key principles for inhabiting the space: between defined systems and spontaneous gestures.
The first, the most basic, which consists of marking one’s presence in space and time, takes the form of the installation outside the ramparts of the Keep of the monumental sculpture, Pacifique, made up of amphorae stacked one upon the other.
BIOGRAPHY Edgar Sarin (b. 1989)
Edgar Sarin lives and works in Paris. His sculptural practice focuses on the persistence of forms and collective memory, seeking to highlight the anonymous and simple gesture, akin to certain folk or votive traditions, where emotion and intention lie at the heart of the creative process. In 2016, he was awarded the EMERIGE Revelations prize. In 2024, he received the Pierre Cardin Prize for Sculpture awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts – Institut de France. That same year, two of his works were acquired by the Centre Pompidou, and he unveiled his first permanent public commission: a monumental bronze installed in the city of Le Havre.
Edgar Sarin’s works feature in numerous institutional collections, including the Musée Maillol, the Collection Lambert and the Zhi Art Museum in Chengdu, China.
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