Garance Früh

Objects with an associated masculine connotation, such as sports equipment used to protect the body, are complemented by protective objects from childcare, delicate fabrics and fragile objects moulded in ceramics to form new non-functional structures, a kind of armour-carapace of a new kind. The staging of this supposed opposition calls into question the binary classification systems that are immediately apparent on observation, and evokes a change of perspective: sensitivity and gentleness are elevated to the status of defensive and emancipatory attributes. Garance Früh's works thus reflect existing systems of oppression, but consciously evade their own potential inclusion in dichotomous classifications: protection and vulnerability are conceived as entities.

Garance Früh is a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2018) and the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy (2020).
She has taken part in group exhibitions such as Le saint ennui at BQ, Berlin (2021), cur. Clément Delépine, Something like falling off the world, at Forde, Geneva (2022) cur. Varun Kumar, Vous n'avez pas besoin d'y croire pour que ça existe, at the FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Nantes (2023) cur. Théo Casciani. In 2023 she had her first solo exhibition, Soft Armor, at In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand and was selected for the 67th Salon de Montrouge.

In 2024 she will take part in the exhibitions The Airbag Generation at Medusa, Brussels, cur. Lila Torquéo, Vielles coques & Jeunes récifs at the FRAC d'Ile-de-France, cur. Céline Poulin and Alicia Reymond, Power Moves at Les Sheds in Pantin, cur. Fabienne Bideaud, at the Reiffers Art Initiative Prize, cur. Vittoria Matarrese, Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty at the Fondation Ricard cur. David Douard, and One's Room at Datsuijo, Tokyo, cur. Cléo Verstrepen and Li Jingwen.