Kids Fight
Matthieu Haberard
Matthieu Haberard
GIANNI MANHATTAN is pleased to present Kids Fight, Matthieu Haberard’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Haberard’s new body of works choreograph the gallery into a space reminiscent of a school playground and draw from a personal archaeology, unearthing a recollection of the artists’ memories growing up within a suburb of Toulouse in the South of France. The artworks in the exhibition evoke distain towards systems of control and utilise distorted or enlarged emblems that are reminiscent of the high school classroom.
Veneered wooden surfaces, year after year riddled with graffiti forming a psychological schema of idle, deliberate and escapist inscriptions by students. An architecture where time is structured, managed, dissected and anaesthetised into lessons and divided by fences that demarcate space; zones of leisure, sport or misadventure are separated from those of formulaic learning and standardisation.
Haberard presents a psychological diorama, evoking not only his own childhood, but presenting one’s past as a subjective if not impossible proposition. The inhabitants of this reconstruction are an oversized leather sword, discarded petrified bottles, an abundance of rotting tomatoes and two wounded demons that haunt the liminal zone between adulthood and childhood. These absconding fragments abandon reason, consequentiality and the constraints of language. They are distortions of memory and they conceal the unspoken tragedy that childhood is destined to disappear.
Matthieu Haberard and GIANNI MANHATTAN wish to thank the Artist Residency programme of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès for their support in the production of .
A heartfelt thank you to the team that assisted in the production of the work; Florence Fricker, Karine Van-Zandt, Gilia Honnet, Leo Jaulin, Emmanuel Debayelli, Barbara Geoffroy, Yves Gueniau, Hugo, Lisa, Severine and Stephanie.
Haberard’s new body of works choreograph the gallery into a space reminiscent of a school playground and draw from a personal archaeology, unearthing a recollection of the artists’ memories growing up within a suburb of Toulouse in the South of France. The artworks in the exhibition evoke distain towards systems of control and utilise distorted or enlarged emblems that are reminiscent of the high school classroom.
Veneered wooden surfaces, year after year riddled with graffiti forming a psychological schema of idle, deliberate and escapist inscriptions by students. An architecture where time is structured, managed, dissected and anaesthetised into lessons and divided by fences that demarcate space; zones of leisure, sport or misadventure are separated from those of formulaic learning and standardisation.
Haberard presents a psychological diorama, evoking not only his own childhood, but presenting one’s past as a subjective if not impossible proposition. The inhabitants of this reconstruction are an oversized leather sword, discarded petrified bottles, an abundance of rotting tomatoes and two wounded demons that haunt the liminal zone between adulthood and childhood. These absconding fragments abandon reason, consequentiality and the constraints of language. They are distortions of memory and they conceal the unspoken tragedy that childhood is destined to disappear.
Matthieu Haberard and GIANNI MANHATTAN wish to thank the Artist Residency programme of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès for their support in the production of .
A heartfelt thank you to the team that assisted in the production of the work; Florence Fricker, Karine Van-Zandt, Gilia Honnet, Leo Jaulin, Emmanuel Debayelli, Barbara Geoffroy, Yves Gueniau, Hugo, Lisa, Severine and Stephanie.
17.11.22—17.12.22
GIANNI MANHATTAN, Wassergasse 14, 1030 Vienna
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GIANNI MANHATTAN is pleased to present Kids Fight, Matthieu Haberard’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Haberard’s new body of works choreograph the gallery into a space reminiscent of a school playground and draw from a personal archaeology, unearthing a recollection of the artists’ memories growing up within a suburb of Toulouse in the South of France. The artworks in the exhibition evoke distain towards systems of control and utilise distorted or enlarged emblems that are reminiscent of the high school classroom.
Veneered wooden surfaces, year after year riddled with graffiti forming a psychological schema of idle, deliberate and escapist inscriptions by students. An architecture where time is structured, managed, dissected and anaesthetised into lessons and divided by fences that demarcate space; zones of leisure, sport or misadventure are separated from those of formulaic learning and standardisation.
Haberard presents a psychological diorama, evoking not only his own childhood, but presenting one’s past as a subjective if not impossible proposition. The inhabitants of this reconstruction are an oversized leather sword, discarded petrified bottles, an abundance of rotting tomatoes and two wounded demons that haunt the liminal zone between adulthood and childhood. These absconding fragments abandon reason, consequentiality and the constraints of language. They are distortions of memory and they conceal the unspoken tragedy that childhood is destined to disappear.
Matthieu Haberard and GIANNI MANHATTAN wish to thank the Artist Residency programme of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès for their support in the production of .
A heartfelt thank you to the team that assisted in the production of the work; Florence Fricker, Karine Van-Zandt, Gilia Honnet, Leo Jaulin, Emmanuel Debayelli, Barbara Geoffroy, Yves Gueniau, Hugo, Lisa, Severine and Stephanie.
Haberard’s new body of works choreograph the gallery into a space reminiscent of a school playground and draw from a personal archaeology, unearthing a recollection of the artists’ memories growing up within a suburb of Toulouse in the South of France. The artworks in the exhibition evoke distain towards systems of control and utilise distorted or enlarged emblems that are reminiscent of the high school classroom.
Veneered wooden surfaces, year after year riddled with graffiti forming a psychological schema of idle, deliberate and escapist inscriptions by students. An architecture where time is structured, managed, dissected and anaesthetised into lessons and divided by fences that demarcate space; zones of leisure, sport or misadventure are separated from those of formulaic learning and standardisation.
Haberard presents a psychological diorama, evoking not only his own childhood, but presenting one’s past as a subjective if not impossible proposition. The inhabitants of this reconstruction are an oversized leather sword, discarded petrified bottles, an abundance of rotting tomatoes and two wounded demons that haunt the liminal zone between adulthood and childhood. These absconding fragments abandon reason, consequentiality and the constraints of language. They are distortions of memory and they conceal the unspoken tragedy that childhood is destined to disappear.
Matthieu Haberard and GIANNI MANHATTAN wish to thank the Artist Residency programme of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès for their support in the production of .
A heartfelt thank you to the team that assisted in the production of the work; Florence Fricker, Karine Van-Zandt, Gilia Honnet, Leo Jaulin, Emmanuel Debayelli, Barbara Geoffroy, Yves Gueniau, Hugo, Lisa, Severine and Stephanie.
