INFLECTIONS brings together two practices that explore the line as an active force, capable of bending space, disrupting perception, and shifting the gaze.
Remi ROUGH, an English artist from the contemporary abstract scene, develops desaturated compositions made of overlapping, distorting, and folding chromatic bands. His paintings play on a constant tension between geometric rigor and visual instability. The line is never fixed: it glides, bends, and seems to give way under invisible pressure. The surfaces become fields of force where color, reduced to a muted and restrained range, accentuates the sensation of depth and latent movement.
In apparent contrast to the pictorial medium, YGREK, a Swiss artist, intervenes in public spaces using gaffer tape applied to urban fencing. These interventions exploit existing structures to produce optical effects, vibrations, and perceptual distortions that only exist through the movement of the body and the gaze. In this exhibition, YGREK translates these explorations into black and white paintings, recreating on a flat surface the visual tensions arising from his site-specific installations.
The dialogue between the two artists is built around shared concepts: constraint, repetition, and inflection. Where Remi Rough bends the painted strip until it tips into an almost architectural abstraction, YGREK repurposes functional materials to reveal their graphic and perceptual potential. Both work at the boundary between flatness and volume, between surface and space.
INFLECTIONS thus offers a visual experience where the line becomes language, disruption, and rhythm. An exhibition that invites us to slow down, adjust our perspective, and allow ourselves to be captivated by these subtle shifts that transform space into a zone of palpable instability.
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