Possibles Probables , LAB(AU)

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition born from a deceptively simple question: how does one fill a white page until it becomes black? With each attempt, a new rule is introduced, whether it be proportionality, Fibonacci sequences, randomness, linear progression, stochastic processes, or others that defy classification. A lexicon slowly emerges, cataloguing the possible ways of executing this singular task.

Here, the white page is more than a surface. It becomes subject, object, and concept. It serves as the point of origin, a singularity, for broader reflections on the nature of artistic creation. The procedural nature of the work reveals both our capacity and our limitations in translating artistic thought into formal, written systems. In doing so, it highlights the tension between art and language.

The exhibition unfolds across four walls that mirror the conceptual and methodological pillars of LAb[au]'s practice: painting, writing, calculating, and transcoding. It navigates between semiotics and aesthetics, meaning and form, situating itself within the continuum of the collective’s philosophical investigations. Art here becomes a form of introspection, a mode of questioning its own essence.

At the Botanique, thousands of framed pages build an architecture of the already-existent and the not-yet. This ever-expanding lexicon, fragmentary and infinite, stands as a work with a single purpose and no end.

Le Botanique
Text in French and English
21 cm x 29,5 cm
144 pages
ISBN: 978-2-9602490-6-4