La Station 2023

La Station, 109 | Pôle de cultures contemporaines

From 17 November to 3 December

Fossil murmur exhibition

With Thomas Teurlai

Saturday, September 23 to Saturday, December 2, 2023

Opening on Saturday, September 23 from 6pm.

Drive-In Performance at 8:30pm.

An artist inhabited by a buried history of forms, materials and ritual practices, Thomas Teurlai invests spaces all over the world, from white cubes to decommissioned industrial spaces. Exhuming narratives, cutting out sounds, sculptures and human sciences, the artist gives new life and movement to neglected objects and histories. From this encounter between the worlds of alchemy, bricolage and the sacred emerge hybrid installations that appeal to our erogenous zones. Visitors find themselves involved, body and soul, in these poetically offbeat spaces, where time seems to expand.

For the Fossile Murmure exhibition at La Station, Thomas Teurlai presents a new version of his work Râle 21.

Like a breathing aid, an electric motor drives the wheel of a car at the end of its life, as if abandoned there. The movement in turn drives the motor’s various gears. There’s no explosion to propel this racing car, just the breath captured at the piston outlet by micro-contacts. The re-amplified rattle plays the lecherous swan song of an erotico-fossil society at the end of its runway.

The exhibition will also feature the work Providenzad 2120, the fruit of Thomas Teurlai’s collaboration with science-fiction author Alain Damasio, on the occasion of the Providenza residency in Pieve in summer 2020. The work reinvents the cinematic device by using a motorcycle helmet whose visor serves as a projection surface. With a text that projects the viewer into a Mad Max-like universe, the work is emblematic of the artist’s work, while taking as its context a futuristic Corsica with the smell of burnt tires.

Open to the public Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm, except public holidays. Free admission.

Find out more about La Station and Thomas Teurlai.