THEMA Art + Design Fair
Oct
22
to Oct 26

THEMA Art + Design Fair

Usually the person who asks “Who has the time?” already has their answer. OBJECTIVE GALLERY returns to Paris, a city only sometimes polite to time, presents work from eight individuals whose ideas, methods and skill refuse the clock, at THEMA, a fair intent on moving forward. 

Eye to eye with the present, ‘Who Has The Time? / Qui a Le Temps ?’ exhibits functional art that double as counterarguments, enquiries sent to current models: production, trend, attention, time: a world on ten-speed. 

It’s no honeymoon, the labor of love; both carrot and stick. Labor of love. Who has the time? 

DREW ABRAHAMSON, PIERRE CASTIGNOLA, BELTRAN DE MONTAUZON, HELENE DE SAINT LAGER, WILLIAM GUILLON, EMILIE LEMARDELEY, LUKE MALANEY and TOR ROTHSCHILD NERIA found the time, made the work — with pleasure, pressure, assistance; energetically, inefficiently, pedantically. 

Slow practices are an endangered species, quarry to rationality, convenience. Pronounced outdated brought to their end in the name of efficiency. All with the promise of more time, the slot machine you never get up from. 

“When you make bread,” Gaetano Pesce said, “The first thing you do is take a piece and taste. Art, expression, it’s the same thing. We need expression to help us better our lives”. An object is something that makes life more enjoyable. For the presenting artists, same goes for the process; the creative act that promises no reward, no redemption. . 

If being a surgeon is “playing God” being an artist or designer is playing what? Time, said Hélène De Saint Lager. “Layering, suspending, starting over until the right moment is fixed, and guiding light through the work. I try to choreograph stillness within movement.” It’s not playing God, in Luke Malaney’s world “it’s playing poker.” The invention or design you wish came up with: “The sundial,” Tor Rothschild Neria explained “It makes the invisible passage of time visible. Bridging nature, design, and human experience in the most elemental way.” In flux; rolling with it; life’s raw materials – each artists relationship to time resides in their work. 

One could argue time is the greatest artist of them all, richer, clearer, stronger, denser: delightfully complex intrinsically human. For Drew Abrahamson, Pierre Castignola, Beltran De Montauzon, Helene 

De Saint Lager, William Guillon, Emilie Lemardeley, Luke Malaney and Tor Rothschild Neria: time is honored, exiled, a collaborator, friend. Who has the time? Everyone. These are just eight different ways to hold it. 

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THEMA Paris 2023
Oct
17
to Oct 21

THEMA Paris 2023

Aaron Poritz, Boldizar Senteski, Charlotte Kingsnorth,

Agglomerati x Fred Ganim, Ian Felton, Viktor Udzenija,

Vincent Pocsik, William Guillon.

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