August 31 – September 3, 2023
CAMILLE BERNARD
CORENTIN DARRÉ
Art-o-rama, Marseille
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This exhibition presents the work of Camille Bernard and Corentin Darré, juxtaposing their pieces as aquatic, melancholic, and unsettling legends. In Camille Bernard’s “Threshold” series, water seems to call upon the characters to react, becoming a vector of change, mutation, and possibility: a mirror, a reflection, a surface for introspection and questioning. By depicting riverbanks and edges, the artist portrays “ecotones,” an ecological transition zone between two ecosystems. From these liminal territories emerge scenes of interaction and transformation between humans and nature in a palpable state of instability. Corentin Darré’s tale, Òme d’aiga, immerses us in a physical experience akin to an escape room. As lead seeps into hearts and reeds become saturated with tar, the stigmatization and marginalization of invisible communities are revealed. Blending medieval mythologies and digital scripts, Corentin Darré connects the hostility of nature and the rejection of queer bodies through the notion of contamination. Seemingly peaceful and innocent, the works thus give way to the ambiguity and discomfort that arise from observing an uncertain future.

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