For her second solo exhibition at Albarrán Bourdais, titled What does it mean to live a Finite, Fragile Life in an Infinite Eternal Universe, Claudia Comte presents a new set of sculptures in Carrara marble within an installation conceived specifically for the gallery. Spread across its different levels, the exhibition brings together sculpture and an immersive floor installation to create a continuous environment in which the works unfold through the space.
A flower blooms for an instant. The marble remembers millions of years.
Comte's second solo exhibition at Albarrán Bourdais begins somewhere between two scales. One is fleeting and seasonal; the other is geological and measured in deep time. One is intimate; the other is immeasurable. At the center lies a simple contradiction: the flower, image of life, beauty and transience, is transformed into stone, becoming something that seems to resist the very condition it represents.
The exhibition unfolds like a landscape. The gallery floors are covered by a continuous pattern of swamp that connects the different levels into a single environment.