NıCOLETTı is pleased to announce a group exhibition curated by Paris-based writer and curator Salomé Burstein opening next Friday, 13 November at the gallery. Between stages and mousetraps, display devices and peep-show booths, A surface freak brings together works that reveal the mechanisms behind what’s made to meet the eye. Each piece negotiates nexuses of exposure and concealment, where visual pleasure often hinges on what remains out of sight.
Going from storage to storefront, painter and sculptress Hanna Rochereau starts where things are either exhibited or put to sleep. Through uninvited gazes and unauthorized access, her works explore sites of spectacle and consumption, catching them in states of dormancy or functional suspension. They condense accumulative tendencies with emptied-out landscapes, the spectral with the sweat, rendering absence through the thickness of a multi-layered painting process. Visual artist Rey Akdogan’s Clip on series rather conveys a choreography of subtraction, of peeling and folding–sequences of meticulous gestures cutting through display fixtures, unveiling their material substrate and rearranging their remains through delicate decompositions.