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2/2/2007

Two exhibitions

Yvon Lambert, Paris

Sislej Xhafa
Valle'e verticale

Following his first solo exhibition at Yvon Lambert New York in 2006, Yvon Lambert is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Sislej Xhafa in Paris, from February 3 to March 3, 2007. Sislej Xhafa is known for his artistic investigation into the social, economical, and political realities associated with the complexities of modern society, such as global tourism and forced illegality. Xhafa’s works are minimal, as well as subversive. He operates in various media, from sculpture and drawing to performance and photography. His works challenge viewers to recognize the shifts and cracks in contemporary global society. In Valle'e vertical, Sislej Xhafa presents two new sculptures and an installation, which explore our perception of nature. Xhafa is primerily concerned in the destructive character of social behaviour through different rituals. Reality structures our lives, influences society and creates new social distinction. The exhibition, opening on Saturday 3rd February, 2007, puts into question these elements of Xhafa’s reflection.

In When Mac Goes Black, his first solo exhibition at Yvon Lambert New York, Sislej Xhafa adressed the unity, diversity and complexity of the world economy and the human condition. He also explored how our universe can result in both irony and hard reality and presented a sculpture that created a mental friction for the viewer, raising important questions while creating harmony between the human presence in the gallery and its identity as a space of art. The exhibition underlined the powerful psychological states of melancholy and lightness, twin aspects that characterize Xhafa’s work and also celebrate the everyday heroism in basic every day life. Filled with irony, Xhafa’s work possesses a knowing but secret rhythm. Glancing toward a psychological interior, the artist imitates the deep balance between the inner and outer dimensions of our society.


Alice Anderson
Recollection - The woman who saw herself disappear

Yvon Lambert is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Alice Anderson, from February 3 to March 3, 2007. The gallery has represented the artist since 2002; she presented her work at the Studio in 2002 and in 2004, and she participated in the group exhibition “Les Enfants du Paradis" at the gallery in 2003.

Alice Anderson has been developing a mature body of work since 1999. Delving into the various levels of a possible autobiography merging the imaginary and the fictive. She has a particular way of telling stories, creating intense dream-like atmospheres with smooth and perfect images serving as a screen for the blackness and violence of the familial situations she speaks of. Her characters act like automatons: lost in a labyrinthic and Kafkaesque administration at closing time (N.I.H.R., 2002), hypnotized poisoning milk (The Idiot of Evenville, 2004), a mother encouraging her daughter to jump out of a window (Prompt Book, 2005).

For this coming exhibition Alice Anderson presents a new film and an installation. The architecture of the film "RECOLLECTION" -The woman who saw herself disappear, 2006 was conceived as a labyrinth inviting the spectator to wander in the imagination of a woman ghost who cannot stop reliving the day of her own disappearance and yet who cannot understand how it occurred. The only thing she remembers from her childhood is her mother banishing her for having committed a crime that condemns her to eternally assassinate her future self. The installation “INVIGILATOR" , 2007 features a woman made of silicon who watches over the visitors.

A catalogue of her works from 2003-2006 (photographs, videos, installations) will be published for this exhibition including texts from Anouchka Grose and Elisabeth Lebovici.

Graduated from L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris and Goldsmiths College in 2004, Alice Anderson has received the Gilles Dusein Award in 2001. Since then she has been invited in numerous of exhibitions including: Traverse'es, Muse'es d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris en 2001 / Oberhausen Film Festival, Allemagne en 2002 / Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du sie'cle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 2003. The same year she has been invited for a personal exhibition at the FRAC PACA and at Centre Georges Pompidou for the Jeudis du Cine'ma. Lately she has participated to La Force de L’Art at the Grand Palais, l’Espace Paul Ricard, Kunstfilm Biennale in Cologne and at the Rencontres Internationals Film and Video in Berlin 2006.

Image: Sislej Xhafa

Opening: 3 february 2007

Yvon Lambert
108 rue Vieille du Temple - Paris
Free admission

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