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to Thomas
a group exhibition curated by Lucas Morin & Sasha Pevak
14 February – 21 March, 2020
Jimmy Beauquesne
Bady Dalloul
Jesse Darling
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov
Olivia Hernaïz
Candice Lin
Simon Martin
Dala Nasser
Josèfa Ntjam
Bassem Saad
Hanna Zubkova
Opening: 13 February, 2020 at 6 p.m.
La Box
Ensa Bourges
9 rue Edouard Branly, BP297 18006 Bourges Cedex, France
Taking an ordinary love story as its starting point, the exhibition to Thomas features multiple tales of attachment, dependence, anger and resistance. Presented as an imaginary queer romance novel, the exhibition is composed of ‘chapters’ written by individual artists and curators. This exhibition is addressed to a partially autobiographical, partially fictional, past lover; the titular Thomas who could also go by many other names. The works are presented as a series of dialogues between the artists and their imaginings of Thomas. Grounded in their personal experiences, particularly of queer relationships and friendships, the works connect intimate feelings to broader social issues.
to Thomas is the second exhibition of the Emotional Labor curatorial program which explores the political potential of love and emotions. The artists featured in this exhibition address supposedly ‘personal’ emotions, looking at the political factors which produce and shape them. Some works tackle these issues from an intimate angle, focusing on personal emotions and narratives of romantic love. Others explore how emotions are collectively constructed through social conflict, working conditions and the experience of being part of a minority. to Thomas highlights feelings of powerlessness, dependence and loss of control, while questioning whether these can have the potential to transform both personal and social relationships.
Following venue: Ygrec, Aubervilliers (Paris) / May 15 through June 13 / Opening on May 14
Image: Jimmy Beauquesne, from Lucas, 2020, graphite on paper.
artist-in-residence at Garage museum Studios
Hanna Zubkova is selected as artist-in-residence in Garage Museum of Contemporary Art studios program to work for six months in a studio at VDNKH, Moscow
She is working on an project based on a found archive of a soviet philosopher who studied the question of Truth and was an enigmatic figure in academic exchanges between Moscow and Paris in the 60s, precisely around May 68. After his disappearance in the 70s, his prolific heritage was neglected and forgotten.

Istina/ Truth installation view / photo by Zarina Kodzaeva for Strelka Mag

photo of the archive / by Zarina Kodzaeva
hanna zubkova
selected shows
u/n multitude orchestres
round table
Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Dec 2016



Nice, Vigna Bookshop - Paris - Moscow, Blind Spot, Dec. 2017
curated by Ivan Isaev

first person
Skatecafe, Ijplein ferry, Amsterdam Nov. 23 - Dec. 6, 2017
curated by Darya Kravchuk and Robbie Schweiger

we are not the number that we think we are
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Feb. 2-3 2018

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Atelier de Claude Closky, Paris, Dec. 11, 2017

An already which is also a not yet
Atelier de Claude Closky, Nov. 20 2017




Incidents vol. 1
Belarusian Artists' Union, Minsk, 2017


Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, March 7 2017
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, 2016-2017

Issmag Gallery, Moscow, Dec 29 2016
Shabalovka gallery, Moscow, Oct 26 - Dec 11, 2016
Nivet-Carzon gallery, Paris , Nov 18 - Nov 27, 2016

NII Alpbau, Moscow Nov 27, 2016
Leaving Tomorrow, National Centre of Arts Winzavod, Moscow
6th Biennale of Moscow, Special Projects
nothing belongs together
Olavsvern, naval military base, Tromsø, Norway, 2015
Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, 2014