Cyprien Galliard

The first exhibition in the UK by Parisian artist Cyprien Gaillard.

Cyprien Gaillard’s series Real Remnants of Fictive Wars are films of explosions in the landscape that the artist has carried out since 2001.

Part V, on view in this exhibition, is a 35mm film that slowly pans the balustrade of a chateau, traveling against a growing cloud of smoke that erupts from distant trees. Aggressive and mesmeric, these acts of temporary vandalism unsettle and reinstate the composure of the classical environs.