DANAË
La Méditerranée at Pusher, 64, Lincolns’ Inn Field, London. 12 / 2024.
Looking at the different versions of Danae by Titian, one notices a structural variation in subject, yet composition remains. What about skin’s fade? What about the help? What about the colours of the curtain, the platter, the bed? One of the lost variations on Danae remains the most subversive as it survives in a copy by David Teniers the Young. The lesson or tale to be taught is the same whereas the interpretation of it might differ, in terms of class, ethnics and moral. The tale is the one of wealth and creation, dangling between notions of glory and corruption, the economics of desire. [Read more]
La Méditerranée is an exhibition-oriented research group founded in 2020 by Ulysse Geissler, Mateo Revillo and Edgar Sarin. For the past ten years, each of them has been working on generating specific ecosystems within exhibition processes. La Méditerranée considers the exhibition as an active system, seeking to shift from a classic method of presentation to an experimental and dynamic one.
For this occasion, La Méditerranée has created a minting machine as part of a corpus of architectures inspired by the local context and landscape. Danae will join a greater collection La Méditerranée has conceived and built over the years in its exhibitions.
Mateo Revillo 