AMY LEMAIRE & NICOLAS TOURON: SECOND NATURE

December 9, 2022 – January 28, 2023

373 Broadway
New York, NY 10013

An opening reception will take place at the gallery at 5PM on December 9, 2022.

SARAHCROWN is pleased to announce an exhibition by American artist duo Amy Lemaire and Nicolas Touron, Second Nature. The exhibition will take place between December 9, 2022 – January 28, 2023 at SARAHCROWN New York’s Tribeca location. Working in 3D printed porcelain and borosilicate glass respectively, Nicolas Touron and Amy Lemaire’s collaborative sculptural works reconsider nature from a post-anthropocene perspective.

The collaboration between Lemaire and Touron has much to do with time, humanity, and nature. Their work exists in the past and future at the same time, and is concurrently of flora, fauna, and technology. Lemaire, a glassblower, utilizes a craft invented over two thousand years ago, while Touron uses the contemporary technology of 3D-modeled and printed porcelain. As a result, their works include  thousands of years of human innovation as they regard the effects of these achievements and technology on nature. In this sense, their technique and subject matter parallel one another: Lemaire and Touron reveal, in the physical sense and the philosophical, what nature can look like in sync with humans and their technology. 

The works flawlessly combine two materials produced by each one of the duo. The ceramics created by Touron function as the base of the sculptures. Often resembling medieval fortresses or futuristic spaceships, they  function as a stage for the story to be told. Lemaire’s glass work, colorful and even more organic in form, is whimsical and delicate much like nature itself; sometimes they look like otherworldly plants or fungi, sometimes perplexing figures or animals. They represent the actors in this theater. 

As an artist, Lemaire considers the role of technology as an accelerant in a multiplicity of narratives that weave together virtual and physical worlds. Touron, who also uses storytelling as a crucial part of his art, constructs narratives without specific beginnings or ending, and in this way become visual embodiments of the living process of storytelling. Together, their work tells a tale of our time: an ongoing story of growth, coexistence, and time.