Bojan Šarčević

She . 2010

Bojan Šarčević . + Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne

From his early architectural interventions like World Corner (1999), the corner of a decrepit building extracted and inserted into a corner of the white cube exhibition space, to his architectonic pavilions for 16mm films Only After Dark and The Breath-Taker is The Breath-Giver (2007 and 2009), and from his collages made from found pages of architectural magazines, 1954 (2004), to his most recent monumental onyx sculptures, She and He (2010 and 2011), Šarčević’s work reveals itself to be emphatically concerned with sculpture and space - their perception, as well as their social, political and poetic implications.
Their alternating intense materiality or fragile ephemerality is presented alongside a number of his most recent films and photographic works, which underscore the artist’s questioning of representation—the ability for a still or moving image to capture the essence of a thing—as much as his questioning of sculpture itself.
Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne