During my recent stay in Paris, I finally had the chance to visit Danae in person and to spend some time with the team behind the gallery. It is one thing to send work across the ocean; it is another to stand in the room where it hangs.
The occasion was Inner Voice, the group exhibition situating contemporary digital practices within the lineage of Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art, where my triptych Known, Uncertain, Unknown: My Past, Present and Future is on view. Seeing the three animated chapters installed together, and installed well, was a quiet pleasure. The setup gives each movement its own presence while letting the whole read as one continuous reflection on time.
Alongside the triptych, the exhibition also presents three new sculptures derived directly from it: Cloud of the Past, Cloud of the Present, and Cloud of the Future. Each extracts a 3D cloud model from its respective chapter of the digital work and brings it into physical space, the animations and their material counterparts now facing each other in the same room. It is the first time the full set of five works has been shown together, and the pairing of screen and sculpture does something I had only been able to imagine from the studio.
My thanks to the Danae team for the care they have put into the presentation, and for the warm welcome. The exhibition has now been extended until the end of September. If you find yourself in Paris over the summer, please drop by.
