As part of the Poésie balistique (Ballistic Poetry) season instigated at La Verrière, the Brussels art space of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès, curator Guillaume Désanges presents a monograph exhibition by the French-Italian art duo Marie Cool Fabio Balducci. Since meeting in 1995, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci have created a joint uvre characterised by slow, minimalist, often repetitive gestures: actions executed or documented within the exhibition space, using everyday objects (pens, thread, hand-cream) often associated with clerical work (sheets of A4 paper, office desks, Scotch tape, rulers). The calm, pre-determined, repetitive gestures enact a gradual shift into the realm of poetry, creating a space for freedom and silent resistance out of workplace
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