Septuplet
Jean-Francois Krebs
Guest-curated for The Smallest Gallery in Soho, London
February-April 2023
February-April 2023
‘Septuplet’ is a site-specific contemplation on the notion of Touch as “a limit and a spacing of existence” (Nancy, 1992). Lacking entry and exit, it is an areal reality of the finite deferred matter and the infinite maximal existence. This spatiality is a floating beyond the fainted real; a departure towards a new domain – a radiant splendour: de-composed, dis-placed, dis-embodied, dis-persed. There is no before or after, but only a way of being here - in the there of the here, in the where of nowhere. Within this glorious depth, the Corpus-world stretches towards the pre-signified and pre-conceptualised promise of the intercorporeal we-world.
About Jean-François Krebs
Jean-François Krebs is a recent graduate of MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, previously trained in landscape architecture. His current practice focuses on installation, performance art, video, sculpture and weaving.
Recent exhibitions include: Primeval (Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, 2023); Jeune Création 72 (France, 2022); Cosmogonias (Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, France, 2022); They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary (IMT Gallery, London, 2022).
Past exhibitions and events include : 8th Biennale of Contemporary Art (Melle, France, 2018); Edvo project (FIAC, Paris, 2018); Krebs was part of the MAUMAUS program in Lisbon, did a residency in Arteles Creative Center in Finland (2018) and at Fondation Martell in France (2021). Krebs is a Fluxus Art Projects 2023 laureate. Upcoming solo show: Kommet Art Space (Lyon, France, 2023).
Jean-François Krebs is a recent graduate of MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, previously trained in landscape architecture. His current practice focuses on installation, performance art, video, sculpture and weaving.
Recent exhibitions include: Primeval (Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, 2023); Jeune Création 72 (France, 2022); Cosmogonias (Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, France, 2022); They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary (IMT Gallery, London, 2022).
Past exhibitions and events include : 8th Biennale of Contemporary Art (Melle, France, 2018); Edvo project (FIAC, Paris, 2018); Krebs was part of the MAUMAUS program in Lisbon, did a residency in Arteles Creative Center in Finland (2018) and at Fondation Martell in France (2021). Krebs is a Fluxus Art Projects 2023 laureate. Upcoming solo show: Kommet Art Space (Lyon, France, 2023).
About The Smallest Gallery in Soho
The Smallest Gallery in Soho is a historic shop-front which faces onto Dean Street, in the heart of Soho. The aim of this creative space is to display artwork that captures people’s attention on their journey through Soho and encourage them to stop, think and be inspired. It hopes to transcend the rapid changes of building developments and the dispersion of the creative cohort — that was once so vibrant within the area — by exhibiting free and engaging art works to view from the street. The space was established by The Garage Soho, an early stage investor company that champions brand building and creativity.
The Smallest Gallery in Soho is a historic shop-front which faces onto Dean Street, in the heart of Soho. The aim of this creative space is to display artwork that captures people’s attention on their journey through Soho and encourage them to stop, think and be inspired. It hopes to transcend the rapid changes of building developments and the dispersion of the creative cohort — that was once so vibrant within the area — by exhibiting free and engaging art works to view from the street. The space was established by The Garage Soho, an early stage investor company that champions brand building and creativity.