Landscape
Often consisting of unstable materials or found, fragmented and reassembled objects, the works of Guillaume Leblon refuse to be set in stagnant representation. As extensions, deformations, and revelations of what is real, they dwell in the elastic scales of time and space. While the works are often assimilated by architecture, the artist stays here well away from monumentalism. Smoke slowly infiltrates the exhibition space, like a presence hovering on the threshold of appearance and disappearance. A creeping landscape, a sea of condensed clouds, the natural phenomenon reenacted here goes from the sublime romantic to the tiny manifestation of constructed space. Volatile and unstable, the work resists the idea of eternity offered by a museum-sanctuary setting, and reveals the invisible interstices through which the exterior can subtly contaminate the interior.
© ADAGP, Paris 2015.
Exhibitions
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
from 24 Jan to 27 Mar 2004