Grégory Sugnaux – Into The Wolf’s Mouth
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We are thrilled to begin another year of programming, shows, and events at Lateral Roma with the opening of Grégory Sugnaux’s exhibition Into The Wolf’s Mouth from February 10 to March 10, 2023.
The solo exhibition will present a new series of portraits developed by the artist during his current residency in Rome at Istituto Svizzero. Sugnaux uses portraiture to depict a set of characters ranging from niche internet cultures to other forms. Having grown out of social media and online image sharing platforms, the cursed or haunted image is popularized for possessing uncanny attributes, unsettling gazes, or poor aesthetics. However, Sugnaux paints them as characters and recreates the images with empathy and regard alongside various references to art history, printed matter, and private photographs.
You are warmly invited to the opening reception from 7 - 10 PM on Friday, February 10 at Lateral Roma.
Grégory Sugnaux (b. 1989) lives and works in Fribourg. His work is generally concerned with the status of the image through the mediation of exhibition and painting. In extracting the familiar image from its existing pictorial codes, he rejects hierarchical values in art history and tries to turn attention to the representation of alternative systems in image making. With curation alongside his artistic practice, Sugnaux investigates the conditions of the exhibition in his varying approaches. From 2016 to 2020, he was co-curator of the project space WallRiss in Fribourg and since 2017 co-curator of Backslash Festival in Zürich. In 2015, he received the Kiefer Hablitzel I Göhner Art Price and was a finalist in the 2020 Swiss Art Awards. Recent solo exhibitions include data romance at Château de Gruyères (2022), heute denken, morgen fertig at Display, Berlin (2020), and Définitif, donc provisoire at Kunsthalle Friart in 2019. Following this show at Lateral Roma, an exhibition with artist Peter Schweri at suns.works in Zürich will open in February 2023.
OPENING TIMES:
Friday, February 10, 7 – 10 pm, OPENING
Into The Wolf’s Mouth is on view until 10 March 2023 and can be visited by appointment. For info please get in touch with [email protected].
Lateral Roma is an art space in Rome founded by Geraldine Tedder and Mathias Ringgenberg and dedicated to various artistic formats. The program is run by Geraldine Tedder, Marta Federici, Jazmina Figueroa, and Tobias Koch.
