Terres de Mémoires, Terres de Luttes
11 – 25 October 2025
Solo Show
Victor Knipping in dialogue with Richard Long, Jean-Charles Blais and Jean-Pierre Pincemin
Galerie Ars Longa
Opening Saturday, October 11 – 4pm to 7pm.
The Ars Longa Gallery is pleased to present the second exhibition by Victor Knipping, a conceptual artist whose practice explores the dialogues between struggle, matter, landscape, and artistic heritage. This new exhibition brings together works from his residency in Senegal, recent ceramic productions, and traditional iconography, creating a bridge between cultures, territories, and ancestral gestures.
During his residency in Senegal, Victor Knipping immersed himself in the uses and symbolism of wax fabric, a material that embodies identity and society, carrying stories and collective memories. This led to a broader reflection on transmission and tradition. Through a familiar aesthetic—that of traditional motifs, ceramics, and territories—Victor Knipping engages the viewer in an experience of immediate recognition. But this recognition is quickly disrupted by projections and drips that blur the reading of forms, create shifts, and crack the surface of the pattern. These artistic gestures reflect the materialization of LGBTQIA+ struggles: they disrupt the established order, reveal resistance, and open up a space for reinvention.
Victor Knipping draws inspiration from the masters of Land Art and the founding gestures of this movement, which profoundly transformed the relationship between art and territory. This exhibition does not seek to reproduce these practices, but rather to enter into dialogue with them, reflecting on how the artistic landscape and the physical landscape can respond to each other. Some of his works thus evoke a connection with certain major artists in art history, while asserting their own unique style, in which the material (textiles, ceramics, pigments, earth, etc.) becomes a vehicle for reflection on memory, tradition, and identity. By bringing together textile pieces, ceramics, and clay drawings, Victor Knipping offers a poetic and political journey, where traditional iconography meets the raw materials of the land. The artist will bring his artworks in dialogue with exceptionnal pieces by Richard Long, Jean-Charles Blais et Jean-Pierre Pincemin.
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