Matter out of Place: BenandSebastian

MARIA WETTERGREN is pleased to announce that the Gallery will represent the artist duo benandsebastian and hold their first solo exhibition in France, entitled Matter Out Of Place (1 June - 15 September). The title of the exhibition is a reference to the British anthropologist Mary Douglas, who wrote 'dirt is matter out of place’ in her canonic work, “Purity and Danger”. Douglas’s writing has been influential on much of benandsebastian’s work, perhaps most obviously in Completely Dusty, but also in The Outsider/The Insider (in relation to ideas of purity), The Gift and also in relation to the bodily frailty and vulnerability implicit in Seat and Made in Ruins.