Anaïs Goupy
Can’t Delete!
22.09.2022.-05.11.2022.
Anaïs Goupy (*1987) employs motifs that materialise aspects of our digital language, the digitisation of our private lives crossing and crumbling throughout her work as if caught in a post-internet embrace. Large scale paintings melt and fuse digital pixels into the figurative painting tradition, in a direct reference to the analogue/digital divide, and the representation of the female body in both an art historical and contemporary online context. The solo exhibition CAN’T DELETE! is a critical reaction, tinged with irony, to the meme “Felt Cute, might delete later”.
This project is a gallery exchange between LOW and Galerie Lætitia Gorsy — She BAM! – A female-led gallery representing only female artists.
This exchange has been made possible by the generous support of VKKF and Goethe Institute Rīga
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LOW + She BAM! prezentē:
Anaïs Goupy: Can’t Delete!
Izstāde 22.09 – 05.11.2022.
Anaïs Goupy (*1987) izmanto motīvus, kas materializē mūsu digitālās valodas aspektus. Mūsu privāto dzīvju digitalizācija drupdama krustojas viscaur viņas darbiem, it kā postinterneta ieskauta. Lielizmēra gleznas sakausē un iepludina digitālos pikseļus figuratīvās glezniecības tradīcijās, tieši atsaucoties uz analogo / digitālo plaisu un sievietes ķermeņa reprezentāciju gan mākslas vēstures, gan mūsdienu interneta kontekstā. Personālizstāde “CAN’T DELETE!” ir kritiska reakcija ar ironisku nokrāsu, atsaucoties uz mēmu “Felt cute, might delete later”.
Šis galeriju apmaiņas projekts starp LOW un She BAM! Leipciga – sieviešu vadīta galerija, kas pārstāv tikai sieviešu mākslinieces.
Šī apmaiņa notiek pateicoties ar VKKF un Gētes institūta Rīgā dāsno atbalstu.
DID WE EVER LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT DESIRE?
I find myself in a space that makes me feel nothing, but my eyes are still leaking. A piece of ice melting on the carpet. A glass of milky sake with no ice. Did we ever learn anything about desire—where does it come from and why does it feel like such a dead end sometimes?
I didn’t see the plastic wrapped around the bread and started spreading butter on it. I would like to smash my phone just so that we could finally meet in real life (I know then you’re gonna say something like: “Define real”). “Why was there nowhere to go anymore?” (F) To see and to be seen. “You know that he used to model because now he looks bored all of the time.” (C) I feel like when they asked me to speak, they expected that I would say something about the relationship between feminism and capitalism, but, honestly, I didn’t have anything interesting to add to the conversation so I stopped thinking about it (“The future is female!”)
It’s easy to be cynical within a culture that encourages an attitude based on disbelief. Attracted to people that make one feel a sort of longing for something unattainable, while not really drawn to people who are alive, but undesirable. If we manage to change what we desire, can we heal?
(Just because you’re bad at playing the game doesn’t mean that you have to spoil it for everyone else, ok?) Did we ever understand anything about desire? The freeways are burning, but we can only extinguish a few. The mass extinction of butterflies is just not something you can think of everyday. I imagine waking up from this dream and you’re there. Everything feels simultaneously too early and too late; and even though satisfaction is something short-lived, what you want—you want it so bad; squeezing broken glass while other things happen on their own time; impossible to
leave now, right?
Ieva Raudsepa, September 2022.
Images
Installation Views, Anaïs Goupy, Can’t Delete, 2022, LOW Gallery.
Photography: Christian Rothe
Tags
SheBAM! – @shebamart
LOW Gallery – @low.gallery
Anaïs Goupy – @anaisgoupy
David Ashley Kerr – @ash_kerr
Christian Rothe – @rothe_christian
Ieva Raudsepa – @ievaraudsepa
