Jean Luc Moulene

Start in the back and work your way forward at this limit-pushing show, which is clever conceptualism, experimentation, and delightful brain candy, all at once. In Moulene’s hands, identity, material, and truth unravel. Then reconfigure themselves. Move slowly through the exhibition and move around each piece to figure out what’s not quite right about them. Which, of course, is the whole point.

This exhibition ponders how we try to make sense of the universe through science, religion, and politics, and how they teach us everything and nothing about the mysteries of our minds, bodies, and the space we inhabit. Because once you take things apart, they become even more of a mystery. Such is the beautiful conundrum of the world.

Jean-Luc Moulène (b. Reims, France, in 1955, now lives in the Perche region of Normandy). He came of age in the Post-Structuralist universe of Paris in the 1970s, where he studied Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art at the Sorbonne. Understanding this show relies on recognizing his particular conceptualist, deconstructivist approach. These strains of intellectual thought, like Moulene’s art, are dedicated to turning things inside out, finding things outside the dominant narratives to pull them apart.