AG GALLERY

Artist: Florent Poussineau
Title: Festiveovalover 2 (2024)
Graphite on Paper 29cm x 42cm
Framed* (frame is complimentary and in a good but as in condition.)

“Human Meets Human”
September 14, 2024 ~ September 30, 2024
Opening Reception: September 14 (Sat.) 5~7PM

AG Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition “Human Meets Human” by a French artist Florent Poussineau is opening this Saturday, September 14. Please join us for the opening reception and meet the artist. The exhibition will be on view through September 30, 2024.

In this exhibition, visual artist Florent Poussineau presents the encounters he has had in various countries such as Japan, Estonia, British Columbia, Bulgaria, the United States, the Netherlands, Lebanon, and many other places around the world. During his extended artistic residencies, he conducts an anthropological investigation into humanity. The scenes depicted by the artist evoke moments of sharing, meeting, humor, social connection, as well as local folklore with which these inhabitants have grown up and attempt to pass on. Showing the daily lives of people living on the other side of the world holds particular significance. Often, we perceive our own daily lives as mundane and uninteresting. However, what may seem ordinary to one person can be extraordinarily exotic to another. Exoticism does not only reside in distant lands or unknown cultures; it is present in our neighbor, in the details of their daily life that we do not know.

About Artist
Florent Poussineau is a contemporary French artist based in Reims, France. Poussineau’s works are about relationships between people both individuals and as a society and food/ food industry. In this exhibition we present Poussineau’s latest drawings and paintings focused on people who he met through numerous residencies around the world including Japan. This exhibition is a unique exhibition of the artist as we focus on people he encountered instead of the food culture which he is mostly known for. Poussineau has been creating works from questions about the relation that we all have with food in the society. Poussineau uses food both as a fine material, close to a piece of art, elite, and as a repulsive and disgusting element.