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David Douard

DAVID DOUARD

David Douard: serious Slugs’ StrategY Magician Space 2 November–16 December 2023 Beijing
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The exhibition gathers his equivocal language, which he builds from a network of things with flexible physical and semantic properties. Industrial materials, domestic and public furniture, objects of sensory stimulation for humans and other animals, as well as images and poems collected from blogs all coalesce here. Vertebra by vertebra, these elements are fit together in his sculptures, paintings, and collages.

The title of David Douard’s exhibition seems to come from an occult treatise, invoking scintillating interiorities. There’s something unintelligible in this sequence of irregularly-formatted letters, which string together almost arbitrarily like pearls on a thread. Finding an expressive mode that keeps the inherent obscurity of the meaning of words, therefore allowing a warm and open communication, requires a balance that Douard trains himself to maintain. Through transforming the exhibition space in which sculptures, sound works, film and text coalesce coexist, David create a new mixtured world.

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Exhibition view: David Douard, serious Slugs’ StrategY, Magician Space, Beijing (2 November–16 December 2023). Courtesy the Artist and Magician Space.
Exhibition view: David Douard, serious Slugs’ StrategY, Magician Space, Beijing (2 November–16 December 2023). Courtesy the Artist and Magician Space.
Exhibition view: David Douard, serious Slugs’ StrategY, Magician Space, Beijing (2 November–16 December 2023). Courtesy the Artist and Magician Space.
Exhibition view: David Douard, serious Slugs’ StrategY, Magician Space, Beijing (2 November–16 December 2023). Courtesy the Artist and Magician Space.
About the Artist

French contemporary artist David Douard is known for his sculptural assemblages and mixed-media installations. Created from found materials, they draw upon fragmented anonymous writing and ideas found online.

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About the Gallery

The Chinese transliteration for magician – ‘mó jīn shí’ has the meaning of sharpening and refining, suggests a kind of reflection and introspection, while the English word ‘magician’ itself means something fantastical and unpredictable, implying further possibilities.

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798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao R.d
Chaoyang District
Beijing
China
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Tuesday - Saturday
10.30am - 6.30pm
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Beijing Magician Space, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao R.d
Magician Space contemporary art gallery in Beijing China
Magician Space
798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao R.d, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
+86 10 5978 9635
http://www.magician-space.com

Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday
10.30am - 6.30pm
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