Etienne Chambaud

Labor invites you to the talk Limits, Set Theory, and Speculative Models on Limbo, an exhibition by Etienne Chambaud.

The conversation will feature Dr. Carlos Coello Coello —professor, researcher, and a leading global figure in his field— and Maestro Pablo Arredondo Vera. The talk will be held in Spanish and they will explore how mathematics constructs possibilities beyond our imagination, expanding it. They will discuss mathematical models as generators of utopias, dreams, other planets, the past, and the future.

Limbo, Étienne Chambaud’s fourth solo exhibition at Labor, transforms the gallery into a latent space—an incomplete system defined by thresholds, absences, and unresolved tensions. Combining bronze sculptures, modified found objects, industrial elements, neon lights, algorithms and architectural interventions, the exhibition unfolds through gestures of dispersal, cutting, folding, covering, perforation, and reversal.

Through its interplay of material transformations, speculative gestures, conceptual inversions and fragmented systems, Étienne Chambaud’s Limbo constructs an environment that holds meaning in suspension. Resisting closure or resolution, and framing objects as multistable thresholds rather than fixed forms, the exhibition evokes a contingent world defined not by certainty but by what is excluded, latent, or yet to emerge.

–Labor