Vernissage November 17, 2018 at 11AM
Exhibition Until January 5, 2019

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Charles Husser, with great humor, engages in a dialogue with his Family: his family of painters, his masters, and those he looks at every day in the studio. He appropriates their Members—body parts or objects related to the body—to create alluring forms.
His polymorphic art, like that of Baselitz, still represents today, as it did 30 or 40 years ago, an aesthetic and intellectual challenge. Neo-Expressionist inspirations from artists such as Tàpies or Baselitz, among many others, can be found in Husser’s work. Yet the analogy expressed by the artist between the members of the body and the members of his family is strikingly contemporary.

Julien Spiewak approaches the body from another perspective. His photographic project Corps de style reproduces, with irony but also with elegance and refinement, the projection of Being and Body within the spaces and adornments that belong to its history. It is not only a matter of the body being dressed, but also undressed—becoming part of a whole and transforming into ornament itself. He evokes the analogy between body parts and furniture. A passion for period furniture, interior architecture, and other family stories form part of the universe of this photographer, who has been represented by espace_L since 2016.

Through the dialogue established between artists Charles Husser and Julien Spiewak, the exhibition The Members of My Family seeks to present distinct interpretations of the word “members.”