The exhibition explores how artificial mechanisms can change the way we engage with our physical surroundings, which are always evolving through invisible forces. By disrupting the gallery’s very own environment, the different works describe the changing moments from invisible forces to visible and tangible things, and reveal the ambiguity between natural and artificial conditions. Such a disruption is similar to “singularity” in Mathematics, a point at which a surface, a construct, a thing ceases to be “well-behaved” and becomes uncontrollable or chaotic. Keeping this mathematical construct in mind, Caline Aoun’s works explore time and space’s intangible and ever-changing realms, and describe ephemeral points in time at which things become irreversible.
By exploring the verifiable points after which a set or system begins to behave in a different manner, one cannot help but wonder how many points of singularity are currently causing a change that is beneficial or detrimental to us? The exhibition brings us back to the only time-space continuum that is available to us, which is the present moment. When you surrender to what is, the past loses its influence, and the current moment becomes the only thing that matters, a sort of timelessness in the present.
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Caline AounArtificial Dew, The Machine’s Morning Creation II, 2023Copper plate, copper pipes, aluminum plate, foam, fridge compressor, radiator with fan, thermostat, sensor, rele, paint.160 x 110 cm -
Caline AounArtificial Dew, The Machine’s Morning Creation III, 2023Copper plate, copper pipes, aluminum plate, foam, fridge compressor, radiator with fan, thermostat, sensor, rele, paint.160 x 110 cm
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Caline AounArtificial Dew, The Machine’s Morning Creation, 2023Copper plate, copper pipes, aluminum plate, foam, fridge compressor, radiator with fan, thermostat, sensor, rele, paint.160 x 110 cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounArtificial Dew, The Machine’s Morning Creation IV, 2023Copper plate, copper pipes, aluminum plate, foam, fridge compressor, radiator with fan, thermostat, sensor, rele, paint.160 x 110 cm
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Caline AounNature's Time Capsule II (two available), 2023Acid free paper pulp144 x 210 cm each (framed)Courtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounRadiant Alchemy, 2023Fluorescent light, copper120 (L) x 6 (H) x 8 (D) cmCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounVanishing Act I , 2023Marfa’ office supplies, paint, shelfVariable DimensionsCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
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Caline AounVanishing Act II , 2023Marfa’ office supplies, paint, table
Variable DimensionsCourtesy of Marfa’ ProjectsCopyright The Artist
Caline Aoun
b. 1983, Beirut, Lebanon / Lives and works in Beirut
Aoun’s work involves reduced experimental correctives, inversions, and resting places in a historical moment of technological advancements . By addressing the changeability and the undercurrents of the hidden material and physical world, Aoun shows how inseparably real and virtual worlds are actually linked. In her work, Aoun encapsulates these hidden events by revealing how the continuous accumulation of matter can essentially change what we see and make it possible to sensually grasp otherwise intangible connections.
Aoun graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK in 2005. She received a Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools, London, UK in 2009 and earned a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, London, UK in 2012.
Her works have been recently exhibited at Art|Basel Paris +, Paris, France, Villa Empain Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, Greynoise, Dubai, UAE, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, MAXXI, Rome, Italy, Marfa’, Beirut, Lebanon, Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom, Casa Árabe, Madrid and Cordoba, Spain.
Caline Aoun was Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2018.
Her work is part of the collections of MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts Houston), Maxxi (Rome) and Deutsche Bank (Berlin)
