Laura SachsKatrin Brause aka HeichelCorrina GoutosDorothee LiebscherNitsa MeletopoulosJana MertensChloé PiotKathrin ThieleQuinda VerheulBRICKS

Basically, Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, She BAM! by representing exclusively female artists is a direct response to the ongoing gender disparity in the art world. She BAM! stands for its own initiatives and positions by presenting a bench of curated exhibitions called COCKTAIL. A bold name that sounds like thumbing the nose to the other half and getting reborn in the endorsement of the power of being together. COCKTAIL is a mix of fancy ingredients that aim to match together to depict, examine and interrogate specific topics in various ways. This attempt is an exclusive opportunity to discover each individual artistic practice in a non-hierarchical display.

COCKTAIL #2 ‘BRICKS’ is the second show of the series. It brings artists from different origins, backgrounds and ages into an intergenerational dialogue. ‘BRICKS’ silently inaugurates a backwards renewal of the world, the works as ruins in reverse(1) that subtly shift from architecture to a transfigured nature through various textures, materials, mediums and a particular colour palette.

Having entered what is now called the Anthropocene era, many artists are responding to the global challenges posed by the different actual crises. As an emergency in the face of extinction, some are proving to be the engineers of visionary thinking, whether realistic, defeatist or utopian. If ‘art induces another way of inhabiting the world’(2), the artworks displayed in the exhibition immerse us in myths and parallel universes, deploying constructions subject to the inescapable phenomenon of entropy and exploiting the transmutation of nature in a fictional and primary aesthetic.

(1) Robert Smithson, Monument of Passaic, Artforum, December 1967 — 2. Nicolas Bourriaud, Planète B Le sublime et la crise climatique, ed. Les Presses du Réel, 2022, p. 11.