2P Contemporary is pleased to present the solo exhibition of new works by Cédric Maridet entitled ‘Distinct Factures. A Return from Langsdorff’. This exhibition appoints the theoretical concept of transforming the gallery space into a Wunderkammer, a chamber of curiosity that fascinated many predecessors in the Renaissance. Maridet borrows this practice as a point of departure, adopting the form of an assemblage, to simultaneously explore the possibility of an re-enaction of a particular sensual engagement within a milieu of overlapping subsystems with the use of different modes of writings and signs – a development of an abstract but original signifier to synthesize an experience of firstness that was initially a mere potential; the significations and unavoidable limits in the translation of an existing physical reality to representation; and the gap between different perceived spatiotemporal worlds of different organisms in the same territory. Recently returned from residencies in the rainforest in Brazil and in Penang’s National Park, Maridet takes The Langsdorff Expedition (1826-1829) led by Baron von Langsdorff in Brazilian Amazon as an analogy to directly evoke the scientific and methodical undertone of the encyclopedic assortment of works in this exhibition.
The exhibition incorporates works on paper, video, installations and sound compositions. This miscellaneous collection of intricately fabricated works urges the audience to decode a stratum of signs and generate their own translation along the way through Maridet’s transposition in his oeuvres. Through a systematically organized perception experience and the act of recording, different samples of signs are constructed to become a possible descriptive form of a particular territory (a specific, subjective, spatiotemporal world); to represent nodes of opportunity and open pathways to new potentials of knowledge, representation, imagination and narratives; to create a new syntax of the world. Exhaustive sources of sensual experience and the overlapping yet different animalities within an intricate internal landscape are taken collectively as the keynote of this exhibition. Audience will find though, they remain largely absence; unseen and unheard. In this particular moment of time, Maridet has set himself off to the outlying perceptual territory, to exhaust the limitless representation possibilities and to seek to get out of oneself through a work of defamiliarisation in creating alternatively a distinct facture to delineate the world.