Rhizomes

Collective show during Paris Design Week

With Lena Marie Emrich, Robinson Ferreux, Joana Schneider and Clément Rougelot

8 September — 30 October 2023

“Folly is an endless maze,
Tangled roots perplex her ways […].” — William Blake

Rhizomes are underground labyrinths of roots. They provide energy only when tangled in chains. These systems of organic roads secure life from the firm grounds to the eventual skies. They resemble the circulating networks of the human nervous system, connecting the central core with all the body parts. The power of these networks is that they always find their way, be it to the inside or outside, under or above, within or without, equally embracing entity and togetherness.

Rhizomes at Sainte Anne Gallery is a group show with works by Lena Marie Emrich, Joana Schneider, Clément Rougelot and Robinson Ferraux focusing on the maze of connections in nature, art and design. The exhibition offers a perspective on works inspired by the realm of organic networks between organisms.

On the main floor of the gallery Lena Marie Emrich presents her sculpture Gossip chair II, and Mechanophilia, a series of mosaics, made from natural acrylic stone. The chair charms us into the intimacy of its embrace, and the mosaics hypnotize into the narrative of their delicate engravings.

The woven lines of Johanna Schneider’s textile sculpture introduce a landscape of cumulated repetitions, a network of thoughts enrooted within the spatial composition. In the upstairs room Clément Rougelot presents Bigger Splash, offering a chance to exchange with a self, through the looking-glass and Robinson Ferreux’s paintings embrace the abstract shapes of roots reaching their potential or imaginary itineraries.

The entanglements within the exhibition emphasize the continuity of transmission in nature and the endless directions of securing life.

Text by Alicja Brzeska