2025
Artist:
Sarah Benslimane
Date:
2025
Medium:
Assemblage
Materials:
Acoustic foam, Bells, Mirrors, Metal
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Painting
Presented in 2025 at the Francesca Pia Gallery as part of the exhibition Le monde à l’envers, 2025 is part of a series of paintings in which Sarah Benslimane adapts Robert Rauschenberg’s “flatbed” principle by freely arranging materials and forms on a horizontal surface. The work is composed of rectangular fragments of acoustic foam: the background features vertically oriented striations, against which two crosses—one of which is inverted— stand out, formed by other fragments arranged in the opposite direction. Small bells of various sizes and colours are slipped between the raised sections of the foam, where they catch the light and bring the surface to life. Whilst this work is distinguished by an almost sacred monumentality that is unusual in Benslimane’s practice, the bells counterbalance this solemnity by introducing a playful, DIY dimension—a characteristic of the artist’s work—to the piece.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Sarah Benslimane - Prix Culturel Manor 2025
MAMCO - Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Genève (Suisse)
from 30 Oct to 20 Dec 2025
MAMCO - Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Genève (Suisse)
from 30 Oct to 20 Dec 2025
Le monde à l'envers
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (Suisse)
from 08 Feb to 12 Apr 2025
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (Suisse)
from 08 Feb to 12 Apr 2025