FACADES
2022
Extending Gerard & Kelly’s ongoing investigation into the “ruins of modernism,” Facades plays with the viewer’s perception of one of the most iconic modernist architectural sites, Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, France. This triptych print transforms a still from Bright Hours into an abstract plane of saturated tones, interrupting the usual narrative of modernist architecture as devoid of color. In their work on the discourses that undergird this building and other architectural sites, Gerard & Kelly interrogate the ways in which the history of modernism has often been written to exclude its deviations and antagonisms, making room for alternate histories and marginal subjectivities to take shape.
Extending Gerard & Kelly’s ongoing investigation into the “ruins of modernism,” Facades plays with the viewer’s perception of one of the most iconic modernist architectural sites, Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, France. This triptych print transforms a still from Bright Hours into an abstract plane of saturated tones, interrupting the usual narrative of modernist architecture as devoid of color. In their work on the discourses that undergird this building and other architectural sites, Gerard & Kelly interrogate the ways in which the history of modernism has often been written to exclude its deviations and antagonisms, making room for alternate histories and marginal subjectivities to take shape.
2024 | Group exhibition
Marian Goodman Gallery, Art Basel Paris2023 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: Ruins, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, Art Basel Paris2023 | Solo exhibition
Gerard & Kelly: Ruins, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France