10/11/2023
We are inviting in our new space for a lecture on 21/11/23. We asked them to join us for a talk in light of developing our new artist-run space.
Founded in 2014 by artists Amaury Daurel and Victor Delestre, Deborah Bowmann is an imaginary company whose major activity is to rethink the figure of the artist by developing research around questions of presentation, context and collaboration.
Somewhere between fiction and reality, Deborah Bowmann assembles modern figures of capitalism, somewhere between the bureaucrat, the gallery owner, the sales representative and the artist duo itself. Their practice explores, on different levels, the spaces occupied by these different figures - the office, the gallery, the shop, the fair, the domestic space - as well as the different economies specific to these universes.
From 2016 to 2022, they run an exhibition space in Brussels in which they organise 33 exhibitions in collaboration with artists from different backgrounds, for which they produce immersive installations.
Combining their sculptural practice with that of scenographers and curators, they produce installations and display sculptures 'at the service' of other objects, works or people. Their approach is to focus on the support rather than the supported. As if the received idea of sculpture on its pedestal had been turned on its head, the two artists pay particular attention to the context in which an object is displayed, rather than the object itself, which often becomes the pretext for the duo's works.
