22 April – 3 May

Rien ne sert de courir

With Rien ne sert de courir, Didier Merlin presents suspended images that hover between snapshot and staged tableau. His enigmatic figures appear trapped beneath glossy glass, frozen between appearance and disappearance.
Working in reverse glass painting since the 1990s, he builds images backward; since 2019 acrylic glass and drypoint engraving have expanded scale and sharpened his line. The exhibition combines painting, engraving and hybrid techniques to explore mediation, fragmented narrative and the porous boundary between intimacy, collective memory and imagined reality.

Rue de la Truite 4,
1205 Genève
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Photo Credit: DR

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