AVALANCHE

With this carte blanche offered to the duo composed of artist Nelson Pernisco and curator Andy Rankin, the Avalanche project is being exhibited on the walls of the gallery. More than 100 artists were invited to entrust them with a work, a fragment or a piece of scrap so that it could be sprayed. This powder is then displayed in ziplock bags, allowing anyone to buy an artwork by weight! All artists are sold at the same price: €100 per gram.

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The atoms that make up the universe agglomerate, dissociate and reconcile forcefully. Long before the idea of time and matter, the universe was born from an explosion into the void, and it will be exhausted in a tear of all conceivable energy. Between the Big Bang and the Big Rip, galaxies, planets, and stars are born to die out in a burst of light and particles. Crystals, grains and dust don't care about their state, between liquid, gaseous or plasma, because they are the ones who shape the immensity. Like these particles, no one is able to observe the whole picture they compose. Like a broken screen, pixels in matter sometimes produce inconsistencies that science will never be able to explain. “Dark matter” or “antimatter” are just titles that change according to the whims of refuted theories. Only the void, which constitutes most of what we know, remains unchangeable. It is the void that allows matter to be. Its existence, which one might think is only a marker of absence, allows the universe to expand, planets to flourish and particles to twirl.

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Rome, Paris or Athens are cities inhabited by murmuring, singing and screaming for thousands of years. Their constant rumble is in fact much older than the cultures that keep them alive. Temples may wither, cemeteries can always be sprayed, cities are still buzzing. Over the centuries, the inhabitants of these cities have dismantled brick by brick the walls, palaces and shrines to rebuild new ones. The traces of the past intertwine with the forms of today, in an amalgam of memory, in a conglomeration of memories. The layers of time are so intertwined that it is difficult to tell them apart. In a blur of sand and dust, ruins mingle with buildings before being devoured by dust and oblivion. Cities are sand castles that are finally completed when their ultimate inhabitant is silence. Only the stones remain. When the myths have disappeared, the mysteries unfold, the enigma thickens. Stumbling against ancient ruins does not make us fall in time, but rather in the face of our own vanity. Each civilization ends up experiencing its disastrous downfall. The ruins of tomorrow are already built because we live in them.

Erosion is a natural phenomenon. The elements touch, blend, and are destroyed in an eternal fight, the outcome of which is dust. Erosion is an unstable communion of elements. A kind of elective affinity for a terrestrial composition that is perpetually unfinished. A silent and unchanging force, erosion flattens mountains, dries up the oceans, and makes tornadoes breathe out of breath. A sandstorm formed by the surf of waves attacks the telluric mechanics that upset the Earth. In an infinite exhaustion, water, earth and air combine into particles.

This fight is so slow that it prevents humanity from observing it, a temporality far removed from our mortal perspective. Moreover, human fire is the last fighter, if not the ultimate, to have entered the arena. It sprinkles the planet with chemical and oxidized constructions, in the throes of certain decay, thus participating in erosive alchemy. Intensive crops, which give way to urban ruins, as well as the innumerable artificial effusions engulfing the planet, pulverize the elements. An excessive pressure that frantically accentuates the alteration of the planetary structure, recalling the fatal human destiny: “Remember that you were born dust and that you will become dust again. “

ANDY RANKIN

List of artists presented for the Avalanche project:

Mounir Ayache - Thomas Ballouhey - Ranti Bam - Ivana Basic - Ivana Basic - Alexandre Bavard - Alexandre Bavard - Cécile Beau - Vincent Beaurin - Bianca Bondi - Bruno Botella - Matthieu Boucherit - Simon Boudvin - Simon Boudvin - Cécile Boudvin - Cécile Boudvin - Cecile Bouffard - Cecile Bouffard - Deborah Bouffard - Deborah Bowmann - Deborah Bowmann - Deborah Bowmann - Gillian Bowmann - Gillian Bowmann - Gillian Brett - Jeanne Briand - Charlotte Charbonnel - Baptiste Charneux - Gaëlle Choisne - Boris Chouvellon - Pierre Clou Cindy Coutant - Paul Créange - Wolf Cuyvers - Louis D'Anjou - Louis D'Anjou - Nicolas Daubanes - Laurence De Leersnyder - Alain Declercq - Dejode & Lacombe - Quentin Derouet - Quentin Derouet - Lucie Cuyvers - Lucie Douriaud - Louis D'Anjou - Nicolas Daubanes - Nicolas Daubanes - Laurence De Leersnyder - Alain Declercq - Dejode & Lacombe - Quentin Derouet - Lucie Douriaud - Lucie Douriaud - François Dufeil - Sara Favriau - Ferruel & Guedon - Hervé Fischer - Deborah Fischer - Nicolas Floc'h - Nicolas Floc'h - Karsten Födinger - Karsten Födinger - Pierre Gaignard - Vincent Ganivet - Anne-Valérie Gasc - Julia Gault - Paul Gounon - Paul Gounon - Laura Gounon - Laura Gozlan - Laura Gozlan - Juan Gozlan - Juan Gugger - Juan Gugger - Cyrielle Gulacsy - Cyrielle Gulacsy - Cyrielle Gulacsy - Matthieu Haberard - Matthieu Haberard - Antonin Hako - Charlotte Janis - Jean-Baptiste Janisset - Paul Gounon - Laura Gozlan - Laura Gozlan - Juan Gozlan - Juan Gugger - Juan Gugger - Cyrielle Gulacsy - Cyrielle Gulacsy - Fabian Knecht - Roy Kohnke-Jehl - Lucas Kroeff - Lucas Kroeff - Yvannoé Kruger - Emmanuel Lagarrigue - Pauline Lecerf - Louis Le Kim - Anaïs Lelièvre - Vincent Lemaire - Vincent Lemaire - Vincent Lemaire - Ra'anan Lévy - Ra'anan Lévy - Ra'anan Lévy - Marie Limoujoux - Marie Limoujoux - Guillaume Linard Osorio - Vincent Lo Brutto - François Malingrey - Leonard Martin - Vincent Mauger - The Mediterranean - The Mediterranean - Benoit Ménard - Adrien Menu - Adrien Menu - Marie-Claire Messouma - Léa Mestres - Enzo Mianes - Juliette Minchin - Anita Molinero - Gabriel Moraes Aquino - Gabriel Moraes Aquino - Mountaincutters - Mountaincutters - Mountaincutters - Louise Mutrel - Adrien Menu - Adrien Menu - Adrien Menu - Marie-Luce Nadal - Marie-Luce Nadal - Marie-Luce Nadal - Antoine Nessi - None Futbol Club - Nefeli Papadimouli - Pierre Pauze Aquino - Gabriel Moraes Aquino - Mountaincutters - Mountaincutters - Louise Mutrel - Adrien Menu - Adrien Menu - Adrien Menu - Marie-Luce Nadal - Marie-Luce Nadal - Marie-Luce Nadal - Boryana Petkova - Benoît Piéron - Margot Pietri - Margot Pietri - Benoit Pype - Benoit Pype - Andy Rankin - Delphine Reist - Antoine Renard - Mateo Revillo - Vivien Roubaud - Vivien Roubaud - Salim Santa Lucia - Salim Santa Lucia - Ugo Schiavi - Ugo Schiavi - Olivier Severe - Buhlebezwe Siwani - Cedric Teisseire - Anna Ternon - Maxime Testu - Maxime Testu - Thomas Teurlai - Thomas Teurlai - Simon Thiou - Laurent Tixador - Anna Tomaszewski - Pauline Toyer - Victor Toyer - Victor Vaysse - Victor Vaysse - Romain Vicari - Romain Vicari - Vincent Voillat

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