Nicolas Daubanes. Le feu intérieur

French artist Nicolas Daubanes (born 1983) explores power structures and the will to resist them. His works – large-format, sometimes monumental drawings with iron powder on magnetic panels, and installations – reflect on the reasons for, and consequences of violence, social injustice, oppression and war. His historical research focuses primarily on recent as well as contemporary French and German history, the Resistance during the Second World War, and the fate of prisoners and deportees.

The title of the exhibition in Karlsruhe Le feu intérieur (“The Inner Fire”) refers both to the fires smoldering within societies and to the “inner fire” that drives artists, scientists, politicians, and citizens engaged in resistance. It concerns the courage to disobey, from which ideas for techniques of sabotage, mutiny, and subversion emerge. Daubanes’ art deals with strategies of survival and liberation whose global relevance is undeniable.

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Orangerie
Hans-Thoma-Straße 6
76133 Karlsruhe

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