Lucas Erin
Le Serein
Opening Thursday, 5 December 2024, 6-9pm
6 December 2024 – 12 January 2025
Le Serein draws inspiration from the Creole architecture and Caribbean climate to evoke the atmosphere of a veranda at dusk. The exhibition is conceived as a space for exchange, extending a dialogue initiated during Lucas Erin’s exhibitions Nou Kontan We Zot (Espace 3353, Carouge) and Mawon Ciel (La Salle de Bains, Lyon). Through reflections on the colonial legacy of representations in the recent media coverage of the protests against the high cost of living in Martinique, and on the invisibilization of the key role held by the Nardal sisters’ literary salon in the history of the Négritude movement, Lucas Erin’s installation transforms the exhibition into a site of self reflective conjunction of knowledges and subjectivities, poised at the threshold between the visible and the invisible.
With a text by Seloua Luste Boulbina.
Lucas Erin is a Franco-Caribbean artist working with forms of cultural interrelations, encounters, and resistance to social normalization. He has been engaged in the art space La Colonie (Paris) and was a co-founder of Happy Baby Gallery (Crissier). Selected recent exhibitions include La Salle de Bains (Lyon), Espace 3353 (Carouge), and Allstars Gallery (Lausanne).
Flyer by Clio Ha.
Texte by Seloua Luste Boulbina (Fr)
