Trampoline is pleased to support the solo exhibition of the artist Paul Maheke at Mercer Union, Toronto.
Spanning drawing, video, sound, and dance, French artist Paul Maheke’s practice embodies the interplay between the self and the collective in the complex shaping of our identities. His work brings personal narratives into the public forum, challenging us to confront the vulnerable presence of another. Employing contrasting aesthetic strategies of hypervisibility and erasure, Maheke produces environments suspended in productive crises of coherence, where the destabilization of fixed relations gives rise to the open-endedness of his subject.
In spite of my own desire to see you disappear is a sound installation that attempts to render the experience of being affected, recognized, and understood. While Maheke’s work in dance often includes his physical presence, here the visual representation of his body is conspicuously absent. He instead uses the temporal, experiential, and emotive qualities of sound to uncover the sensation of the body and guide the audience’s movement.
Paul Maheke : In spite of my own desire to see you disappear is commissioned by Mercer Union, Toronto ; and Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin, Lethbridge.
