Artists

Genesis Tramaine

Press release

Almine Rech Paris, Turenne is pleased to present SWEET JESUS!, Genesis Tramaine’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from October 12 to November 16, 2024.

When history tells the story of contemporary art—or of avant-garde movements, which have long been taken for contemporary art itself—it focuses on a series of acts of liberation.

Liberation from the academic model (Gustave Courbet and Realism), from the structure of our vision itself (Cubism), from the hand of the artist (delegating production to others), from representation, and even from inspiration, narration, etc. At the same time that the notion of the end of avant-garde movements has become accepted, it has also been possible for art to liberate itself repeatedly from the same constraints—returning to the starting point, and thus justifying all kinds of “returns” or renunciations, meaning that nothing can be assumed and everything is open to debate.