Past the Point of Logic

The artists gathered in this exhibition share a common ability to unsettle our points of reference, prompting us to question the traditional boundaries of logic and perception we rely on to ask questions and understand the world. Through forms that seem both familiar and elusive, they urge us to reinvent the way we see. Their works, though rooted in material — steel, video, light, lines, surfaces — escape any stable definition. They are in perpetual motion, not physically, but in the multitude of interpretive readings they allow.

 

It is precisely within this tension between the concrete and the undefined that their strength lies. These works do not tell us what to think: they open cracks. They force us to rewire our mental circuits, to break out of habit and move beyond our logical frameworks — beyond our usual ways of relating to the world. In these works, ambiguity is not a flaw, but a fertile ground where new questions take root.

 

Lawrence Weiner, Keith Sonnier, François Morellet, Sol LeWitt, Charles de Meaux, and Philippe Decrauzat share this ambition: to shake our certainties in order to reveal new ways of existing and perceiving. Their works are not answers, but tools — philosophical, poetic, intellectual — that accompany and challenge the viewer in an exploration of their own thought. Through this engagement with logic, these artists remind us of the necessity of questioning and of the meaning that constitutes an object, a space, a situation.

 

Thus, the works are no longer presented as objects to be interpreted, but as devices for thought: they invite a continual rereading of the visible, of language, and of space. Through deliberately open forms, these artists — among the most important figures in this field — compel us to reconsider our points of reference, to reconfigure our understanding of the world, and perhaps, as Weiner once suggested, to glimpse a singular way of finding one’s place in the sun.

 

Pierre-Yves Martinez, curator