from 1 to 5, 3

(2026)

From 1 to 5, 3
part of solo exhibition Haut les mains!, at EAC centre d’art contemporain (les halles), CH, 2018

*65 x 50 cm, poplar, chalk, graphite, oil paint, gold 23k*, 2018
exhibition view, haut les mains! eac centre d’art contemporain (les halles), ch, 2018

Haut les mains! unfolds as a logical sequence around Index, a gold-leafed wooden panel stating ten instructions whose underlying principles are dissected throughout the exhibition via a lexical field of colour, material, sound and image. From 1 to 5 is a set of five drawings paired with From 6 to 10, five monochromes, each built on a colour and/or material that forms the series it answers to.

Here gold is treated as the universal embodiment of the dominant paradigm: distorted, cracked, diverted from its function as a marker of prestige to carry a different symbolic economy.