The British artist Mark Leckey invitations guests into the center of an exhibition unfolding across the ecstatic—that transportive state past the person self. The gathered works recall uncommon experiences and encounters that the artist has had, by which he grew to become disoriented by the extreme emotions they aroused.
The title “As Above So Beneath” is borrowed from the Emerald Pill, a foundational textual content in western alchemy, first attested across the seventh to ninth century. This expression implies a everlasting relationship between the cosmos and the earthly world, the animate and inanimate, the seen and invisible.
Mark Leckey strives to rework the extraordinary into the extraordinary by his work, exhibiting how music, dance, or the town at massive might be vectors for experiencing the elegant. A freeway bridge, a bus shelter, road-safety adverts, street-lamps, or an amusement park change into, in his eyes, portals to a different realm.
Fascinated by the Center Ages, the artist additionally attracts upon numerous iconographic references from the interval. Our personal period reminds him of medieval animist thought, insofar as our use of smartphones and synthetic intelligence rework the objects round us into animate beings.
Throughout every of the works, Mark Leckey mobilizes experiences that permit him to really feel an intense emotion and, in flip, an altered relationship to the world.
Curated by
Elsa Coustou
at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
till July 20, 2025
