LA BF15 - CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE | LYON, FRANCE
ONE MILLION @ SOLEIL POURPRE, ÉPIPHANIE POST-APOCALYPTIQUE | P.B. CITY
Invitation for one evening
Saturday, 1 February 2025 at 2 p.m.
Uli Aigner Presents the Smallest ONE MILLION Items in Lyon
As part of the group exhibition SOLEIL POURPRE, curated by Pierre Boggio / P.B. City in Lyon, France, Uli Aigner showcases two of the smallest porcelain objects from her long-term project ONE MILLION: Item 6346 and Item 6347.
These works are presented in surprising ways:
Item 6346 is displayed atop a single sugar cube – a playful exploration of scale, fragility, and transience.
Item 6347, by contrast, remains hidden – it has been baked into a cake. The twist: the visitor who bites into the porcelain object while eating the cake gets to keep it.
A performative gesture that intertwines ownership, chance, and participation in a poetic act.
In 2060, the world is undergoing a series of upheavals. New celebrations are emerging, such as Seveso Garden Parties, while old ones persist. Such is the case with the traditional galette (or cake) des rois, in which everyone hopes to discover a fève.
The tradition remains, but it has not escaped the collapse of society. Recipes have evolved to cope with shortages and the scarcity of certain foods, and kings have disappeared.
The fèves have multiplied. We can find up to six per cake. The monarchs of yesteryear have given way to the Miracles of Chaos. The others have only their eyes to cry, but they can dry their tears with a blue handkerchief, a skin of sorrow that displays an image imprinted by the meeting of chemistry and sunlight. It offers a little comfort while we wait for the following year...
P.B. City
P.B. City is a protean curatorial and artistic project initiated in 2022 by Pierre Boggio, Simon Feydieu, Alice Marie Martin & Maxence Knepper.
P.B. City hosts and distributes a variety of collective and unifying exhibition formats, echoing the territory and specific characteristics of Pierre Bénite. The project as a whole is based on a fiction of anticipation, in which the world's resources have been exhausted and natural disasters have become a daily occurrence. New cities have been built on the ruins of the past, reinvesting existing infrastructures for new purposes. The political model has totally changed. Artists have taken power, placing art and culture at the center of society as a means of saving humanity.
