2026 begins at Le 19, Crac with two exhibitions. Emptiness in Hand is a solo exhibition by Silvana McNulty curated by Adeline Lépine, director of Le 19, Crac. Silvana McNulty continuously generates hybrid, flexible, and unstable entities based on the principles of assembling and repurposing objects combined with or by textiles. Based on the title, the main installation of the exhibition relates to the hand of the artist, who moves around with her tools, her ball of yarn, and her crochet hook every day, working in the places she passes through with continuous freedom. The void appears in the knots of the stitches, the perforations of the objects, and the gaps, in the minds of those who look to solve certain enigmas deliberately posed by the artworks. They are created, in fact, from the oxymorons and paradoxes that make up our world.
The Cyclops Had Only One Eye, but It Was the Right One from the co-curators, Adeline Lépine and Sylvie Zavatta, is a group show with artworks exerpted from the collection of Frac Franche-Comté (Besançon) by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ulla von Brandenburg, Alfred Courmes, Sylvie Fanchon, Dora García, Shilpa Gupta, Sharon Hayes, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Matthieu Saladin, and Marie Velardi. Here as well, the title is embodiying all the art practices at once. It is borrowed from an enigmatic painting by Alfred Courmes from 1960 questionning art as a subversive and experimentating gesture to translate alternative perspectives on our world.
Each exhibition, in its own way, addresses indeed language. The exhibitions present practices with singular voices that contribute to the necessary creation of narratives and myths, bearing witness to our modes of existence in all their dimensions, as well as to their future perspectives.
