Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

Peter Aerschmann, Marco Poloni, Ryan Gander, Sven Augustijnen

Éclipses du réel

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Marco Poloni, The Desert Room, 2005-2006. Photo: Dominique Uldry

Éclipses du réel aims at investigating our modes of cognitive and sensory perception while highlighting aesthetics of disappearance in an alienating world. Exploring worlds between image and sound, fiction and reality, the visible and the invisible, the works of Peter Aerschmann, Sven Augustijnen, Ryan Gander and Marco Poloni attempt to probe through simulation the irreversible loss of meaning and communication linked to the disappearance of critical thinking and to the rise of certain forms of censorship. Éclipses du réel is an exhibition which attempts to stimulate the viewer by combating the erosion and desertification of a world which hides and disguises its commitments under a blanket of deception and pretense.

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Marco Poloni, The Desert Room, 2005-2006. Photo: Dominique Uldry

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Marco Poloni, The Desert Room, 2005-2006. Photo: Dominique Uldry

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Marco Poloni, The Desert Hotel, 2006. Photo: Dominique Uldry

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Peter Aerschmann, Theatrum Mundi, 2006. Photo: Dominique Uldry

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Ryan Gander, The First Grand National, 2003. Photo: Dominique Uldry

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Ryan Gander, The First Grand National, 2003. Photo: Dominique Uldry

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Sven Augustijnen, L’Ecole des Pickpockets, 2000. Photo: Dominique Uldry