Limit States by Jean Denant at RocioSantaCruz

RocioSantaCruz opens on September 15, as part of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2022, États limites, Jean Denant's second project at the RocioSantaCruz gallery. This project alludes to the organization of those territories that, being imaginary or real, nourish each other, highlighting the porous fragility of borders, whether psychological, geographical or political. Borders that are essentially turning points where flows change direction, social constructions – fences, passports, maps... – that do not prevent things from moving, but act as symbols of movement itself. Denant again uses architecture and its materials (cement, brick, stone) to bring us closer to those enclaves, in which the exchange works as a metaphor for a poetics that emerges from the concrete and is it directs to what is symbolic navigating between subjectivity and what is common to us.

Denant is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between painting, architecture, design and sculpture. Based on a pluralistic practice based on material research, gestures and identity, the author reflects on the concept of architectural thinking linking the analysis of the human condition to architecture and, in particular, to the concept of reconstruction In his projects, architecture acts as a poetic metaphor in which the artist invites us to closely observe the dualism of drifting actions between the action of building and that of deconstructing, between rubble and life, for generate new perspectives, and open cracks in the foundations of hegemonic discourses. Denant uses specific materials in the construction and gives them an artistic purpose, with which he causes a voluntary discrepancy between the nobility of the gesture and the precariousness of these.