Positive Paradox: Héloïse Chassepot, Swetlana Heger

Opening 23.5. | 6 -10 pm

We are pleased to announce the upcoming dialogue exhibition Positive Paradox, featuring works by Heloise Chassepot (b. 1995, Paris) and Swetlana Heger (b. 1968, Brno), curated by Mitchell Anderson.

In the laboratory a positive paradox is the phenomena where the results of high accuracy tests are counterintuitive. Héloïse Chassepot and Swetlana Heger are artists separated by a full generation, yet their practices align contemporaneously in ways that also stagger presuppositions. They manipulate and merge expectation and desire, the heartfelt and the hollow; experiences “real”, digital and imagined. At the core of these new works, and in aspects of their wider practices, are explorations of and indulgences in the contradictions inherent in the beauties of culture and living. Like Stendal’s syndrome seamlessly coexisting alongside the syndromes named for Paris, Jerusalem, etc. - pleasure and beauty and disillusionment and weariness exist side by side, oscillating.