Durée, curated by Reilly Davidson
Florence Carr, Tatjana Danneberg, Nora Kapfer, Antonio López, Mira Mann, Mickael Marman, Chaeheun Park, Phung-Tien Phan, Olivia van Kuiken

05.09–04.10.2025

Durée brings together nine international artists whose work sheds light on the disjuncture between analysis and intuition. Following Henri Bergson’s conception of durée, or “duration,” this exhibition is an opportunity to weigh the world of images, symbols, and language against that of pure flux. 

Where Olivia van Kuiken remixes specific linguistic and perspectival modes, Nora Kapfer addresses early modern notions of design and ornament through repetitive floral systems. The two align on their shared interest of geometric configurations and a research-oriented practice. Throughout the painting process, they also step in and out of an intuitive application of materials. Antonio López and Chaeheun Park both employ similar approaches using recognizable forms piecemeal, yet remaining attached to different methods of abstraction. Images are similarly distorted in Tatjana Danneberg’s marriage of photography and painting. 

A collaborative effort between Phung-Tien Phan and Mickael Marman consists of the two exchanging materials, upending familiar strategies and leveraging intuition instead. Florence Carr holds fast to found materials, minding their origins but seeking new ways to bend and distort meaning. She’s interested in semiotic remodeling, which Mira Mann further explores in their own conceptual subterfuge. Mann studies forms and histories with rigor, funneling them  into reconfigured objects. 

While it remains impossible to convert durée “into ready-made concepts,” according to Bergson, perhaps one might, instead, seek proxies or portals that lead to the ultimate flow zone. Whether tending toward the analytic approach or moving with the continuous flux of intuition, these artists chart new courses en route to understanding and representing lived experience.

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