Titled “ELLIPSIS”, this exhibition brings together three of Europe’s leading artists, who are simultaneously devoted to introspection and the influence of the social body. The diversity of mediums and techniques each artist uses is driven by a shared desire to probe the human soul and its imprint into the contemporary world. The converging theme thus navigates between the interior and the exterior, playing with the ellipsis, a literary or cinematographic device that consists in omitting one or more elements of a narrative without affecting its comprehensibility. The exhibition context, therefore, allows visitors to restore this omission.

These last years, Marc Ming Chan’s research has chosen on « spatio-moral confinement » as his research theme: situations of isolation and meditation that he expresses in enigmatic, paradoxical forms. His recent works, painted in acrylic, become tangible in sculptural constructions: stelas, futuristic walls, labyrinths of imaginary relics. For “ELLIPSIS”, the artist exhibits a new series of drawings entitled « Smother », in black Posca pencil with white highlights on washed-out Indian ink, focusing on the dark smokes that are the consequences of today’s conflicts and disasters. He also presents several box-sculptures from the « Hippocampus » series, in which graphic compositions in copper and bronze tones underscore wooden assemblages evoking constructivist ruins. Finally, the « Bone » series develops cells linked by a passageway, theoretical and mental spaces sublimated by iridescent spectral hues on a textured black background. Their supports are cut to fit the contours of the composition. This motif of interconnected rooms, recurrent in the artist’s work, reveals his approach to the cell as a secure place, against the backdrop of the stellar void, an allegory of harmfulness.