Brognon Rollin. The penultimate version of reality

Brognon Rollin - The penultimate version of reality Texts: Jean-Michel Attal, Julien Blanpied, Anne Ellegood, Éric Fassin, Axelle Gregory, Lucien Kayser, Frank Lamy, Pierre-Olivier Rollin 256 pages Bilingual French-English 200 reproductions Size: 23 x 17 cm Pin Graphics: Granduchy (Fred Thouillot) Editions du MAC VAL - Co-published with the BPS22 Museum of Art of the Province of Hainaut ISBN: 978-2-900450-10-9 Office: August 20, 2020 25 euros The MAC VAL is offering the duo’s first monographic museum exhibition artists Brognon Rollin (born respectively in 1978 and 1980, in Belgium and in Luxembourg), bringing together existing works and new productions. The penultimate version of reality: behind this title, borrowed from Borges, a simple and yet dizzying question develops... Reality does it exist outside of its representations? What about time and its perception? Of its relativity? Of its spatial dimension? How to give form to the experience of duration? Of waiting? Of suspension? Of balance? Brognon Rollin's projects condense tangled narratives that are part of the history of minimal and conceptual art. Combining symbolic, facts, objects, anecdotes, a priori disjointed and sometimes incredible, the works are highly polysemic, supports for unfolding vanishing lines marked by melancholy and poetry. What we see is not only the tip of the iceberg. A clock freezes as the hour approaches spectator in the constrained space of a cell, a line sitter occupies the space from the museum to the voluntary departure of a person at the end of their life, the duo trace the island of Gorée at scale 1 to enclose it fragment by fragment in a shelf, children calculate the correct location of the central circle of a football field with thwarted geometry in Jerusalem… Waiting, confinement, status quo and fragility of borders are at the heart of the obsessions of artists, leading them to explore intermediate spaces: addictions, prisons, islands… The duo, by moving these cursors, by mobilizing a change of perspective, postulates that a fall can resemble a flight and conversely. Between Philip K. Dick, Stefan Zweig and Jorge Luis Borges, Brognon Rollin explore the interstices of time. The works in the exhibition are given to experience as so many spatio-temporal faults, ultimately engaging a meditation on the programmed disappearance of all things. Rich in numerous contributions, co-published with the Musée d’art de la Province of Hainaut, the BPS22 in Charleroi, which will present an exhibition of the duo in the fall of 2021, the catalog, the first retrospective publication of the artists in France, will document all the works presented in the two places, radiating all of their production. Exhibition at MAC VAL: March 7-August 30, 2020