Solo Show: Pier Yves LaRouche

More than this takes form in the act of experiencing a given time and space. It strives to objectify the dynamics of intangible and overlooked qualities of a set environment. It is the exploration of  unsolved equation of symbols and feelings floating in a limbo. The gallery is a frame for the layering of interpretations, bringing to light the contradictions between obvious and oblivion.

Rýmd’s recognizable floor pattern has involuntary become a signature for the gallery, subsequently turning the space into the anti-thesis of a white cube. The floor cannot be ignored and eventually plays a part in every exhibition as the art object get afflicted by its infamous, or elevating, influence. Based on this assumption, More than this ’s architectonics are drawn upon the infrastructure of the space itself. It reassembles, disrupts, and blurs its spatiotemporal elements in order to create an altered and alternate version of the space. 

More than this obliquely addresses and uses the ritual of the vernissage. Through mingling, the viewer act’s as an actor in which the formality of the art opening is celebrated rather than its content. The form prevails on the substance. Hence my interest in creating a situation where the art piece is generated and revealed through the viewer rather than  the artist as the distance between the form and the substance is befogged. The space is filled with an ambiguous mood where time is suspended and framed by an audio loop. The experience of the surrogate gallery reveals more meaning than its documentation will succeed to archive. As the space is altered, time slowly but actively modifies the reading of the event/art piece.  

There will be martinis. 

Alcohol acts as a medium that bounds communities together; a facilitator. Through drunkenness, time reaches a new pace. There is then a simultaneous cohabitation of an alternative time, which is itself experienced on a different temporality. Through repetitive consumption of alcoholic beverages, the experience becomes a cyclical loop of pleasure. At openings, the art community usually engages in such ritual (to a recommended moderate extent) within the art space and becomes bounded emotionally by the art, which is expressed by artists in morphology. The object of the exhibition opens to a collective experience which subsequently, or rather unconsciously, controls the viewer himself. Ultimately, the art object experiences itself.  
Over the duration of the exhibition, More than this becomes the archive of itself, as reminiscent of the opening are left behind. The exhibition is sustained by its own holistic system but its revolution gets out of sync with its own past and gradually appears at odds with its core intentions.  

More than this, you know there is nothing 
More than this, tell me one thing 
More than this, you know there is nothing 

More than this 
nothing 
More than this 
More than this  
nothing 

-Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music)

Open from 2 to 6 pm on Sunday 10th, Wednesday 13th, Friday 15th

Pier Yves LaRouche (b.1988) has obtained is BA fin Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 2011. He is currently completing is MA at IUA