JUN 28, 2024
JUL 28, 2024
*EXTENDED TO
AUG 08, 2024*
JUL 28, 2024
*EXTENDED TO
AUG 08, 2024*
NADJA
CURATED BY MARIE SEGOLENE
JOEL DEAN
ALEGRIA GOBEIL
CASIMIR ERNEST GASSER
DYLAN WEAVER
CURATED BY MARIE SEGOLENE
JOEL DEAN
ALEGRIA GOBEIL
CASIMIR ERNEST GASSER
DYLAN WEAVER
64 FULTON STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10038
NEW YORK, NY 10038
SARA'S is pleased to present NADJA, a collaboration between Espace Maurice and SARA'S at Dunkunsthalle, on view from June 28 to August 8, 2024.
NADJA is a group exhibition presenting new works by Joel Dean, Dylan Weaver, Alegría Gobeil, and Casimir Ernest Gasser, curated by Espace Maurice’s founding director Marie Ségolène C Brault. This will be the third project of SARA’S residency at Dunkunsthalle, located at 64 Fulton St. New York, NY.
The works in NADJA, ranging from paintings to video, sculpture and performance, are presented through the lens of Andre Breton’s infamous novel, while honoring the life of Léona Delcourt, their surreal short lived romance and the multiple intersecting mythologies, themes and narratives present within the book.
A performative intervention by Alegría Gobeil will punctuate the evening starting at 7:30pm.
"I couldn't tell you how I ended up with a copy of the book but sometime at the end of January, two yellow métro tickets fell right out of its open spine. I was holding the ‘64 edition: the one with the big hand and the memorable pencil portrait of Nadja on the cover. The version Breton diligently revised, omitting all traces of a physical affair. I was holding it up, a few inches from my nose. On the tickets, a tiny note in black pen read something about vacationing, knitting a sweater and looking for a car. They were old but they were not my mother’s, nor my aunt’s. I traced the tickets back to Paris, sometime around ‘82, when the RATP launched a publicity campaign called Ticket Chic, Ticket Choc, a video with yellow tickets painted on a cow, sticking out of back pockets of jeans, top hats, rings, ties and bras. Get your yellow tickets!
The 10th of October, 1926. Nadja tells Breton that before meeting him for dinner she asked the employee in the métro to pick heads or tails. As he punched her ticket he said: tails. He was right. You were wondering if you would see your friend again, he said. You will. That night she predicts Breton will write a novel about her, aware of the fleetingness of their encounters, she hopes that a trace of them withstands time.
The 10th of October 2023. A portrait of an imagined woman, is leaning on the floor of Dylan’s mother’s basement. While photographing his work, I fall in love with the large hand that frames her face. Dylan insists that she is Scottish, I wonder how one would know. Strange how a pair of eyes in a painting can be so agile at keeping things from us.
NADJA is a group exhibition presenting new works by Joel Dean, Dylan Weaver, Alegría Gobeil, and Casimir Ernest Gasser, curated by Espace Maurice’s founding director Marie Ségolène C Brault. This will be the third project of SARA’S residency at Dunkunsthalle, located at 64 Fulton St. New York, NY.
The works in NADJA, ranging from paintings to video, sculpture and performance, are presented through the lens of Andre Breton’s infamous novel, while honoring the life of Léona Delcourt, their surreal short lived romance and the multiple intersecting mythologies, themes and narratives present within the book.
A performative intervention by Alegría Gobeil will punctuate the evening starting at 7:30pm.
"I couldn't tell you how I ended up with a copy of the book but sometime at the end of January, two yellow métro tickets fell right out of its open spine. I was holding the ‘64 edition: the one with the big hand and the memorable pencil portrait of Nadja on the cover. The version Breton diligently revised, omitting all traces of a physical affair. I was holding it up, a few inches from my nose. On the tickets, a tiny note in black pen read something about vacationing, knitting a sweater and looking for a car. They were old but they were not my mother’s, nor my aunt’s. I traced the tickets back to Paris, sometime around ‘82, when the RATP launched a publicity campaign called Ticket Chic, Ticket Choc, a video with yellow tickets painted on a cow, sticking out of back pockets of jeans, top hats, rings, ties and bras. Get your yellow tickets!
The 10th of October, 1926. Nadja tells Breton that before meeting him for dinner she asked the employee in the métro to pick heads or tails. As he punched her ticket he said: tails. He was right. You were wondering if you would see your friend again, he said. You will. That night she predicts Breton will write a novel about her, aware of the fleetingness of their encounters, she hopes that a trace of them withstands time.
The 10th of October 2023. A portrait of an imagined woman, is leaning on the floor of Dylan’s mother’s basement. While photographing his work, I fall in love with the large hand that frames her face. Dylan insists that she is Scottish, I wonder how one would know. Strange how a pair of eyes in a painting can be so agile at keeping things from us.
This thing with the book, it has developed into an obsession. Nose deep in its pages, I am like a truffle pig. First it was the spine of the book, the tickets like piano keys, then the fleeting romance, the fall into madness, Mélusine: the mermaid, fish suspended in still water but actually moving forward, only forward, never backwards. The temporality of desire, the hand big like a flame, burning fast and bright, the tiles that frightened Nadja from entering a bar, these yellow tiles…. The ticket man. The glove. The convulsive beauty. Playing prey to analogies, as if struck with lucidity. As if all the parts of the cryptogram exist only for you and whomever you deem most trustworthy. And who’s to say it doesn't."
- Marie Segolene C. Brault
JOEL DEAN (b. 1986, Atlanta) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Derosia, New York (2024); Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2021); Prairie, Chicago (2019); Cordova, Barcelona (2019); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2018). Selected recent group exhibitions include Simone Subal, New York (2023); Someday, New York (2021); Annex de Odelon, New York (2021); P.P.O.W, New York (2020); Bodega (Derosia), New York (2020); Tatjana Peters, Ghent (2020); Gern en Regalia, New York (2019); MX Gallery, New York (2019, 2018).
CASIMIR ERNEST GASSER (b. 1996, Pike River) was raised in a small farming village in Southern Quebec, where he learned to work with his hands and discovered his material sensibilities. The themes of his work hearken back to this pastoral and secluded upbringing combining the natural world and imagination. Gasser received his BFA from Concordia University. Recent exhibitions include Pumice Raft (Toronto); Espace Maurice (Montreal) and Apartment 13 (Providence, RI.); DarkZone, Madison, NJ (2019); and Gern en Regalia, New York, NY (2019).
DYLAN WEAVER (b. 1976, Youngstown) is a painter who lives and works in Youngstown, Ohio. After receiving some formal training at Youngstown State University, in oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, Weaver has developed a unique style of figurative painting that reflects his solitary life in Youngstown (OH). His work has been shown locally at Art Youngstown Inc, The Trumbull Art Gallery and Greyland Gallery as well as most recently at Espace Maurice (Montreal, Canada). Weaver has been awarded a CSArt Project grant to develop a series on nature and the lunar calendar. Through a surrealist combination of imagery pulled from classical paintings, pop culture and his quotidian, Weaver has grown to shape a visual language that is experimental, brutalist and unsettling. The characters and urban landscapes he depicts are the reflection of a rich dreamscape and a sensitive interiority.
- Marie Segolene C. Brault
JOEL DEAN (b. 1986, Atlanta) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Derosia, New York (2024); Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2021); Prairie, Chicago (2019); Cordova, Barcelona (2019); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2018). Selected recent group exhibitions include Simone Subal, New York (2023); Someday, New York (2021); Annex de Odelon, New York (2021); P.P.O.W, New York (2020); Bodega (Derosia), New York (2020); Tatjana Peters, Ghent (2020); Gern en Regalia, New York (2019); MX Gallery, New York (2019, 2018).
CASIMIR ERNEST GASSER (b. 1996, Pike River) was raised in a small farming village in Southern Quebec, where he learned to work with his hands and discovered his material sensibilities. The themes of his work hearken back to this pastoral and secluded upbringing combining the natural world and imagination. Gasser received his BFA from Concordia University. Recent exhibitions include Pumice Raft (Toronto); Espace Maurice (Montreal) and Apartment 13 (Providence, RI.); DarkZone, Madison, NJ (2019); and Gern en Regalia, New York, NY (2019).
DYLAN WEAVER (b. 1976, Youngstown) is a painter who lives and works in Youngstown, Ohio. After receiving some formal training at Youngstown State University, in oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, Weaver has developed a unique style of figurative painting that reflects his solitary life in Youngstown (OH). His work has been shown locally at Art Youngstown Inc, The Trumbull Art Gallery and Greyland Gallery as well as most recently at Espace Maurice (Montreal, Canada). Weaver has been awarded a CSArt Project grant to develop a series on nature and the lunar calendar. Through a surrealist combination of imagery pulled from classical paintings, pop culture and his quotidian, Weaver has grown to shape a visual language that is experimental, brutalist and unsettling. The characters and urban landscapes he depicts are the reflection of a rich dreamscape and a sensitive interiority.
ALEGRÍA GOBEIL works with practices considered self-destructive, unproductive, unlivable, unsurvivable. Their indisciplinary practice is rooted in performance, having taken the form of altered objects, protocols, writings, documents, in situ actions and their traces. These forms are often the result of citation and narrative detour, engaging in a critique of processes of psychiatrization. Their work always unfolds within the material, corporeal and contextual constraints of their production.
Their performances have been presented by Centre CLARK and GNO (Montreal/Sudbury, CA), Le Lieu (Quebec City, CA), Gruentaler9 (Berlin, DE), Folie/Culture (Quebec City, CA), SKOL (Montreal, CA) and OFFTA (Montreal, CA). Their solo exhibitions have been presented by Le Lieu (Québec City, CA), Espace Maurice (Montréal, CA) and L’Oeil de poisson (Quebec City, CA). A is a 2023-2024 resident at LA SERRE – arts vivants, for their first project as a playwright and director. They hold a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. A lives and works in Montreal.
MARIE SÉGOLÈNE C. BRAULT (b. 1988) is a performance artist, writer and curator based in Montreal (Canada). She completed her Masters in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. Marie has exhibited work and performed in the US, Canada, and Europe in spaces such as M.Leblanc (Chicago), No Gallery (New York), CUE Arts Foundation (New York), EXPO Chicago (Chicago), Hauser & Wirth (New York), Pangée (Montreal), the Knockdown Center (New York) and more.
In 2022, Marie Ségolène founded Espace Maurice, an apartment-gallery located in Montreal, showcasing works by emerging local and international artists. Espace Maurice took part in Montreal’s contemporary art fair: Plural (2023) and has published four artist books since its inception. Her writing has been commissioned by galleries such as Afternoon Projects (Vancouver) and TAP Art Space (Montreal). She has curated hybrid projects at Babayaga in Hudson (NY) and Weatherproof - The Hole (Chicago). In the summer of 2024 Marie will be curating a group exhibition in partnership with Sara’s at Dunkunthalle (NYC), as well as a group exhibition at Pangée (Montreal). Marie was selected for the 2024 Fonderie Darling Quebec-Acadie Fall Residency in Matapédia (Qc) and Moncton, New Brunswick.
Their performances have been presented by Centre CLARK and GNO (Montreal/Sudbury, CA), Le Lieu (Quebec City, CA), Gruentaler9 (Berlin, DE), Folie/Culture (Quebec City, CA), SKOL (Montreal, CA) and OFFTA (Montreal, CA). Their solo exhibitions have been presented by Le Lieu (Québec City, CA), Espace Maurice (Montréal, CA) and L’Oeil de poisson (Quebec City, CA). A is a 2023-2024 resident at LA SERRE – arts vivants, for their first project as a playwright and director. They hold a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM. A lives and works in Montreal.
MARIE SÉGOLÈNE C. BRAULT (b. 1988) is a performance artist, writer and curator based in Montreal (Canada). She completed her Masters in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. Marie has exhibited work and performed in the US, Canada, and Europe in spaces such as M.Leblanc (Chicago), No Gallery (New York), CUE Arts Foundation (New York), EXPO Chicago (Chicago), Hauser & Wirth (New York), Pangée (Montreal), the Knockdown Center (New York) and more.
In 2022, Marie Ségolène founded Espace Maurice, an apartment-gallery located in Montreal, showcasing works by emerging local and international artists. Espace Maurice took part in Montreal’s contemporary art fair: Plural (2023) and has published four artist books since its inception. Her writing has been commissioned by galleries such as Afternoon Projects (Vancouver) and TAP Art Space (Montreal). She has curated hybrid projects at Babayaga in Hudson (NY) and Weatherproof - The Hole (Chicago). In the summer of 2024 Marie will be curating a group exhibition in partnership with Sara’s at Dunkunthalle (NYC), as well as a group exhibition at Pangée (Montreal). Marie was selected for the 2024 Fonderie Darling Quebec-Acadie Fall Residency in Matapédia (Qc) and Moncton, New Brunswick.
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SUN AUG 04 5-7PM
CLOSING EVENT WITH READINGS AND PERFORMANCES BY JOEL DEAN, SALLIE FULLERTON, ADRIENNE GREENBLATT + REN SANCHEZ, JAGO RACKHAM, AND GARETT STANFORD PHELPS.
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