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11/3/2015

David Brognon & Stephanie Rollin

Albert Baronian, Bruxelles

From 12th March to 18th April 2015, Albert Baronian will exhibit a new series of works by the young French-Belgian duo David Brognon and Stephanie Rollin whose radical and brilliant minimalism once again delineates confinement and waiting. A barely sketched outline or a contrario carefully mapped in the true, concrete and frightening sense of the term with Cosmographia, 2015. A mad and monumental piece that physically archives the contradictory reality of the island to better organise its kidnapping. Synonymous with tourist escape in the 20th century, the island is primarily a desolate, deserted and cut-off place. A small prison territory, used as such to exclude undesirables, store them like more or less dangerous or perishable merchandise according to the times. Alcatraz, St Helene and Goree comprise a geographical and symbolic corpus with a double meaning, between evasion and confinement, that Brognon & Rollin decided to go and really trace out full-scale in situ, starting with Goree (Senegal). An island that is a symbol of the trafficking and imprisonment of men by mankind, Goree is home to the House of Slaves. Centimetre by centimetre, spanning 8 days, the 2,2 km outline of the island was reproduced on paper, put in an envelope and sent to Brussels to be stored and classified, using an archive system chosen by the artists: a total of 3.064 geographical fragments and prison escapees before being reincarcerated and sealed in a merciless stainless steel shelving unit. Alongside Cosmographia (Goree Island), five new pieces will be presented at the Albert Baronian Gallery around the young duo's obsessions.

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