Gaspard Le Guen

Saenger Gallery invites you to a guided visit of the exhibition Dungeness by Gaspard Le Guen.

The Dungeness headland, in the southeast of England, is the only desert in Great Britain. Covered by one of the largest expanses of gravel in Europe, Dungeness is among the world’s most densely populated sites of nautical mythology. It was there that Joseph Conrad (1857, Berdichev—now Ukraine, then Poland – 1924, Bishopsbourne, England) made his home when he left his life at sea to devote himself to writing. Over several months, immersed in the work and figure of the writer, Gaspard Le Guen (Le Havre, France, 1992), in dialogue with Gabriel Hörner (León, Mexico, 1963), created a body of work that gradually took the form of a funeral elegy, revealing itself as a continuation of his previous project Servicio Nocturno—an evocation of the possible lives inhabiting the decaying warehouse of a funeral business in Querétaro. In this new development, the artist becomes a castaway arranging the remnants of the shipwreck so that they may sing the elegy of the man who perhaps glimpsed—“just as a glimmer makes a fog visible”—the human condition better than anyone else.

-Gabriel Hörner