tout à l’égout 2°, 2021
What is the promise made by this shop-less shop window? Three propositions, three spaces for the spectacular. As is often the case with Gregory Bourrilly, we are given a plethora: one of several possible stories and several possible atmospheres, oscillating from the sacred to the burlesque by way of the disturbing.
Ambroise Tièche
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Gregory Bourrilly (1980) lives and works in Geneva. A graduate of HEAD – Geneva, his body of work includes sculptures, paintings and drawings that develop through a juxtaposition of mediums and references. His works explore art history, baby talk, forms of abstraction, chance, permaculture, artisanal techniques, geological digs, fetishes and the rebus. Gregory Bourrilly has thus mastered the art of blurring lines. He invites us to explore the unpredictable encounter between materials and living beings in a world so often deserted by humans, worked from within by the principles of alteration resulting from time. Whether it’s in his monumental ceramics, his makeshift installations made of found objects, his textile artworks, or his paintings, the artist has constructed a universe composed of climax and demise, of conquest and collapse. Bourrilly's works have notably been exhibited at MAMCO Geneva, at KANAL – Centre Pompidou Brussels and he currently has a solo exhibition at the Salle Crosnier in Geneva.
©Isabelle Meister (portrait)
©Thomas Maisonnasse
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Gregory Bourrilly
le brouilleur majestueux du lâché prise