FREIBURG.- The PEAC Museum present the first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany by French artist Elodie Seguin (*1984 in Paris, where she lives and works). The exhibition, entitled Look Loop, will showcase the artist’s multifaceted and cross-genre oeuvre. Elodie Seguin has devised a unique exhibition layout for PEAC Museum that encompasses the entire exhibition space and transforms each room into a new work. In her works, the artist makes direct reference to the architectural characteristics and conditions of each exhibition space. Look Loop marks the first time in the history of PEAC Museum that an exhibition has been created exclusively on site.

Artistic practice – between abstract painting and sculpture

In her abstract, geometric wall works, reliefs, objects and (immersive) spatial installations, Seguin experiments with the interaction of colours, the spatial effect of contrasts and the effect of light and transparency. The artist systematically dissects the relationship between form and colour and changes the appearance of the colours through layering. Seguin’s artistic practice plays with the vocabulary of abstract painting and sculpture, without being categorised as either one or the other.

Radically advancing Minimal Art and Radical Painting

While Seguin’s highly pared-down formal language, her exploration of color and the relationship between space, viewer and work are connected to the themes of Minimal Art and Radical Painting—central to the Paul Ege Art Collection—they represent a radical further development: Seguin’s works are all created relationally and are characterized by their apparent fleetingness and lightness. She has developed a completely independent approach that takes the relationship between painted objects and their arrangement and relationship to the exhibition space as its starting point.

Elodie Seguin studied at the Villa Arson in Nice from 2004 to 2007 and at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2007 to 2009. She has been awarded numerous prizes and grants, including Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, (ES), 2023; Fondazione MAAC, Calassetta, (IT), 2022; Interface & Adhex Technology, (FR), 2021-2022; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, (FR), 2014; MACRO Roma, (IT), 2012; Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, (FR), 2011-2013.

Recent projects include: Shaped Colors, BP15, Lyon (FR), 2024; La lampe brûlante, Galerie Daniel Marzona, Berlin (DE), 2023; Le village du Dr Mabille, MUCEM, Marseille, (FR), 2022; Biennale de la sculpture, Saint Paul de vence, (FR), 2021; Yes, Not, MACBA, Buenos Aires, (AR), 2019; Hall painting (Wall work), L40/Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, (DE), 2019.

The exhibition will be on display until 9 March 2025.