MAXIME CHABAL


 
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    Future Continuous, Kunsthaus Hamburg

    Galvanised steel, bleached denim, book, shoelaces, mesh, glass, paper, paraffin oil, lead, leather, rubber, foam, tank top, plaster, Plexiglas, 2025
    (...) The installation’s central element resembles the interior of an anatomical theatre – specifically, the Gustavianum in Uppsala, Sweden. Experts and laypeople alike once observed bodies being dissected here. (...) In his collages, Chabal connects case studies from the book Psychopathia sexualis to materials from other sources and time periods. (...) By appropriating architectures and disavowing scientific logics in favour of simultaneity of past and future, the erotic and the absurd, violence and tenderness, the artist undercuts these dominant narratives. Chabal counters “objective” categorizations with the always elusive subjectivity of human desire, and with the body’s fundamental permeability.”

    Text by Jaana Heine