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We are happy to share the full documentation of "What Remains of the Night" by Hélène Labadie & Maxime Testu.

The exhibition is still on view at KALI Gallery in Lucerne until 3 October 2026 and is accompanied by an exhibition text by Charles Benjamin.

“It is maybe only when we try to talk about it that it doesn’t work” Maxime says. In painting, it can “maybe” work. We are looking at a series of paintings of objects. Objects that are living a kind of crisis - they used to have a use, but are now decorative, more comfortable in a painting than they would be in a contemporary household. Ceramic pots, jars, buckets, horse carriages found in Normandie. In the later part of the same series, the objects stop referring to things found in the real world. Stripes and squares cling to figuration within the shapes of carpets, shirts, landscapes, jackets and shoes. A decorative impulse that can’t quite let itself be. An exhibition titled “Une Pastorale” seems aware of it already being “over” for these objects – for figuration, for romantics. Maxime insists that his awareness of this does not mean that his paintings are a critique at all. That he is not interested in working from the kind of remote perspective that it takes for his work to be a “comment”.

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*To try to speak from the universe of the star in-between the quotes on the top of this page. The universe of the slash that splits Archetype/Cliché. At times, things happen in real life feel as if out of a movie. It’s like being robbed of the experience, and events appear in a kind of meaningful light. A kind of pre-made movie-like common imaginary that briefly moves the world where “everything is as it is and happens as it does happen” just beyond itself. This is more or less how I remember the conversation with Heléne when we tried to talk about her ceramics. Specifically, we were talking about a group of models of the inside of door locks. She talked about a “narrative In-between quality".

@helenelabadiee
@maximetestu
@kaligallerylucerne
Courtesy of the artists and KALI Gallery
Photos by Kim da Motta
@charlesbenjaminpermanent
#helenelabadie #maximetestu #kaligallery

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We are super excited to invite you to the opening and zine launch of our next show S4E3 ’portland’ on saturday 12.9.2026 from 18-22…

With textual contributions from
Ilona Stutz @ylon_pi
Huckleberry Finn
Charles Benjamin @charlesbenjaminpermanent

There will be grill + drinks at the opening and then the show will run with 24/7 access till the 30.9.2026

Please come by to grab a zine and check out the show… see u!!!

Portland is kindly supported by Kanton of Zurich, City of Zurich, and Pro Helvetia

Graphic identity by @k.shafiei.nasab

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« What remains of the night » duo show with @maximetestu at @kaligallerylucerne .
21/08/2026-03/10/2026

✍️ @charlesbenjaminpermanent

📸Kim Da Motta

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barsa o re @barsa08902

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Impressions from yesterday’s PLAY & PRAY sessions with Dawn Nilo, Juno Feierabend and Micha Schweizer at Basel Social Club, Floor 1.C.11.

With works by:

Slide 1 and 2
Charles Benjamin, Open 1 (Yellow), and Open IV, both 2024

Slide 4 and 5
Ralph Bürgin, Ricordo II, 2026

Slide 6
Dawn Nilo, Don‘t Expect the Sun to Rise at Dawn Just Because it set at Dusk, 2026

#dawnnilo @noom.coll #junofeierabend @basel.social.club

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Monk Contemporary is happy to present works by @charlesbenjaminpermanent @ralph_buergin_studio @maudeleonardcontant @manuza Dawn Nilo, Hannes Schüpbach and Alex Silber at @basel.social.club as a part of Prax & Play, an installation and a performance by Dawn and Johannes ( Nilo & NILO).

Upon a 3x3m altar of all the good gods of the universe, moving bodies are exhibited alongside art works and daily objects. Spontaneous improvised performances are played and offered as sacrifices through absurd acts of reverence. Art and objects are installed for contemplation in various constellations.

You find us on the first floor, space 1.C.11.

Open June 14–20 in an impressive office block at Erdbeergraben 1, just a few minutes walk from Basel SBB.

#hannesschüpbach, #dawnnilo, #alexsilber, #johannesnilo

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still leben - laut malen war ein wundervollen Erfolg! Danke an die zahlreiche Besuchende, alle Künstler:innen, und das Klingental Team. Hoffentlich könnten wir euch inspirieren eure kreative und einzigartige Intuition mehr zu vertrauen!

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still leben - laut malen
until 26.04.2026
more events by @melissabsarahtorres and @prof._dr._electric_uwe on Saturday, 18.04.2026!

organized by: @melissabsarahtorres & @_jajaneinnein_
with: Camille Lütjens @lordkmi , Cassidy Toner @cassidytoner , Charles Benjamin @charlesbenjaminpermanent , Gegen Nazis @xgegen_nazisx , Golnaz Hosseini @golnazhsn , Irène Zurkinden, Isadora Vogt @isadoravogt , Ivan Mitrovic @ivanmitrovic__ , Jacob Schenck @prof._dr._electric_uwe , Jan Kiefer @_jajaneinnein_ , Lionne Saluz, Marie Lotz, Melissa A. Torres @melissabsarahtorres , Mimmo Haraditiohadi @apalagifinest , Othmar Farré @othmarfarre , Raphael Widmer @raphael_widmer , Selina Lutz @lutz_selina , Viktor Korol @vk12355789 , Yves Born @twothousandtolate

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still leben – laut malen
15.03.-26.04.2026

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GKJP in action, past few months or so

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Artistas @hermesartesvisuais marcam presença na @feriachaco

Com curadoria de @carlachaim , @marcelimamorim e texto de @talisson.melo - replico abaixo uma parte do texto curatorial lindo e emocionante:

…Ahora más de cinco décadas después, Hermes Artes Visuales propone su participación en la 16ª Feria Ch.ACO, en Chile, con “una gran bandera” compuesta por 41 estandartes de artistas activos en Brasil. Izadas como un tendedero o una decoración de fiesta de São João
en proporciones agigantadas. Estas obras resultan de un intenso proceso de creación compartida entre artistas, a partir de la provocación de condensar su poética para desfilar y
declarar inequívocamente su identidad, sus investigaciones y sus anhelos al mundo. Son 41 universos que convergen en una coreografía de aperturas, zoom-in y zoom-out de aquello que se realiza en otras escalas; traducciones intersemióticas de lo que es escultura, performance, objeto, pintura sobre tela, dibujo, bordado, tapicería, fotografía, grabado, collage… Tantas prácticas y materiales diferentes confluyen en estandartes de 100 x 60 cm que pueden ser doblados, enrollados, colocados en el equipaje para viajar y extenderse en curtidas de un tendedero móvil (mobiliario pensado especialmente para albergar esta
propuesta de intercambio en el stand de la feria).

Cada artista encontró su manera de habitar y desbordar poéticamente estos límites en forma y contenido. En conjunto, cada estandarte afirma una singularidad y, también, los
efectos de aceptar el riesgo de exponerse lado a lado con otras voces, ritmos, visiones y urgencias. Lo que se presenta aquí es un coro de la convivencia provisoria, de diferencias que se vuelven visibles al ocupar el mismo tiempo-espacio. Si, hace décadas, una bandera se
pensó como un gesto dirigido “a todo el pueblo” hoy, tal vez sea necesario admitir que el pueblo se compone de esta multiplicidad irreconciliable de imaginarios. Al reunir estas
cuarenta y una presencias en suspensión, Hermes Artes Visuales proyecta un dispositivo de encuentro y circulación: algo que se abre a la mirada colectiva, al intercambio y se
transforma con cada nuevo encuentro.

Obrigada pela oportunidade!

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Feria CH.ACO -25 - 29 Mar - Santiago Chile , Isabel Manini . Y arriba quemando el sol , 2026. Acrílica e pastel a óleo sobre couro vegetal

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