PRINTS The End of the Dream with Jérémie Bennequin, Sébastien Delvaux, Megumi Fukuda, Jenny Michel, Michael Zheng curated with Judith Souriau Opening, August 2011 Mica Moca Project Berlin e.v.

The artworks gathered in this show have the notions of paper, drafts and writing in common, but without necessarily using paper as a material. Activities of writing, drawing, drafting, tracing lines, erasing and scratching paper are staged or performed as a metaphor of creation.

Jérémie Bennequin has been erasing one page per day of Proust’s “La Recherche du temps perdu” for the last four years. In his last work he recorded the subtle sound of his rubbing out. Jenny Michel composes maps of imaginary regions and dreamed universe, reminiscent of the “Cartes du tendre” mapping love torments in the French Enlightenment. It is the torments of artistic creation that Sébastien Delvaux sketches in his video installation, depicting trials and redo with a sense of irony. Megumi Fukuda combines occidental books with the Japanese art of Origami. Michael Zheng’s installation Utopia stages a volume of Thomas Moore’s book “Utopia” sanded down on a table, poetically illustrating the diminution of utopia in current society.

PRINTS is an invited project, included in the exhibition The End of the Dream, curated by Nicole Löser.