Artists

Ethan Assouline

Press release

Gauli Zitter presents the first solo exhibition in Belgium of ETHAN ASSOULINE. His practice unfolds through sculpture, installation, writing, publishing, drawing, and the organization of collective moments around reading and writing. For this exhibition, Assouline has created a body of new works, spanning mediums, techniques and ideas, often including elements sourced from a preparatory period spent in and around the exhibition venue. In his practice, Assouline takes a critical approach to architecture, neoliberal strategies and language, including how they relate to time, money, human interactions, and bodies. He tries to see how the policies that promote positivity are a way to conceal the social and political problems inherent to today’s city, a sort of joy that is performed by current ideologies in order to normalize power relations and preserve a status quo.