🅺 🆆 🅸 🆆 🆂 🅵
with
@kellyweiss__ &
@samuel.francois at
@bertholdpott gallery, Cologne. 14.03-06.05.2026.
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June 2025 : Kelly Weiss, Iwan Warnet and Samuel François are welcomed by La Tannerie, an art center in Brittany (France), for a month-long artistic residency.
Explore the garden, unpack and arrange the paintings, observe the changing weather, share meals, gather materials, dye paper, open the windows to the dragonflies, hang each other’s work, sow clues – all these were ways of immersing themselves in the situation and creating work with it.
Through mutual influences, they constructed an exhibition as the sedimented traces of their presence, built for this space pierced by windows opening onto a garden and swept by the changing lights of the coastal skies.
What remains if we strip away all the romantic aspects of Breton architecture in the heart of a garden during the summer ?
Here, in a white cube, the works reveal themselves for what they are : rusty asperities on a cotton canvas, several aspects of refined petrol, paper dyed by long-faded flowers...
Each of these three practices is constructed with attention to surfaces, to the unexpectedness of their transitory states. They both like to work with what is already there, recognising the value of simple gestures, everyday materials, and processes that are sometimes discreet.
Surfaces become spaces for interactions, where chemical transformations, the passage of light, traces of use converge. This is not a matter of direct representation, but rather of infusion : these surfaces are the sensory transcriptions of an environment.
It is through the attention with which the artists weave links between their works and the particularities of a space that the exhibition becomes a shared environment, an installation by a trio in which each artist’s forms assume their porosity to those of the others.
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Many many many thanks to
@latannerie_begard for the warm welcome in summer 2025, our time there was so important to build this trio language. 🤍