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FERNAGU - POLARIS

FERNAGU – POLARIS

15 rue des Arquebusiers 75003 Paris
January 29 - March 12
https://www.galeriepolaris.fr/

Opening in the presence of the artist Staurday, 29 January from 3pm to 8.30pm.

Two series will be presented on the occasion of Harald Fernagu’s new exhibition at the Polaris Gallery:

As we go along

Harald Fernagu worked fromt photographic documents of buildings from the 1970s in Moldova and Tajikistan. As these buildings were abandoned by the public authorities, their balconies were annexed by the inhabitants who, with the help of disparate salvaged windows, built new spaces to enlarge their flats. Without any consultation, this collective bricolage follows the lines of the building, respects the shape of the balconies and by repeated modules – the windows – amplifies the rhythms of verticality and horizontality.

By becoming the architects of their daily lives, these inhabitants challenge the authority of the imposing building, like small domestic revolutions. In the series As we go along, thanks to the game of scale that the model enables, using only recycled material, Harald Fernagu builds the architectural manifesto of these popular revolutions where the walls seem more inhabited than the spaces they design.

Contrast is undoubtedly the element that most allows the artist to experience reality. He is in perpetual search of the otherness of the spaces and people he meets. What questions him, a contradiction, an anachronism, all these micro resistances to rules and customs appeal to him. They force him to perfect his language, to question his knowledge.

From these experiences Harald Fernagu constructs forms, sculptures, and sometimes images that are themselves bearers of otherness. He tries to build a reality from this by creating a possible sharing of the experience of the other with the other.

To this new series, Harald Fernagu has decided to add, for the first time at the Galerie Polaris, a series of photographs made with the companions of Emmaüs. Noting that people suffering from social exclusion are as much prisoners of their social status as of the imagery commonly produced around their faces, Harald Fernagu decided to deconstruct this « imagery » by making a photographic work with them, using their humour and prejudices as props.

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