“I would like not to lock this exhibition into any kind of mood through my words. I hate it, these exhibition texts full of emotions, which overplay with great effect what should be played out elsewhere. I hate it almost as much as I hate it when people tell me what to see, or rather, what to understand through what I see – as if that were the question, or the issue, in short, the goal.
So we can stick to a few stable pieces of information: the exhibition is called Cayenne: it’s the name of the garage owner’s dog, right next to the house. It is also the name of a city, a luxury car and a pepper. Four sculptures of different nature and scale are installed there. They don’t seem to have any particular relationship with the elements listed above, but if you feel like bringing them out, nobody will judge you. Without going into too much detail, you will notice that the space (the place as a whole, what links or distances the pieces to each other, or to us) has been treated with consideration – this is an important aspect of the artist’s practice. For the rest, I like that his pieces always defeat what one might want to say about them. I think this is because they are relatively poor. To the fact that they are seen without any artifice, but perhaps not without modesty.
I don’t want to let my reading contaminate the end of this text, but it is obvious that in this balance, something upsets me.”
Franck Balland