Julien Devaux. The Captives

14.11.2019 - 06.12.2019

kunstbuero, Wien / Österreich

The Captives – Julien Devaux

What an absurd and relentless attempt that of men to try to tame nature and time, for this relation and its effects are rather reciprocal. We pursuit to find a sensible arrangement to this period called life trying to fathom what surrounds us.

"We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability...." (1)

The Captives is the result of a series of conversations reflecting on one’s allure towards self-sought captivity around a situation, person or state, enticed by a certain degree of seduction and uncertainty acting at an equal level. This relation and its unfolding events translate into futile attempts to escape, driven by a desire to possess.

Lorena Moreno Vera

(1) Mutability (1816) by Percy Bysshe Shelley quoted in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley`s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818).


[Quelle: Einladung]