Jonathas de Andrade, flesh and blood

He benefited from an exhibition at the Art Center in Noisy-le-Sec in 2024 and two years ago he had been presented at CRAC Alsace in Altkirch, as well as in Galleria continued in Boissy-le-Châtel (77) and Paris. It is this gallery, regular partner, for five years, of the wine estate of Peyrassol and its owner Philippe Austruy, who is at the origin of this new exhibition. It is part of the cross season Brazil-France 2025 and sees the artist (born in 1982) inaugurate the new space of 316 m² devoted to temporary exhibitions. With 8 great works of different disciplines (films, installations, photos), the exhibition could at first sight appear heterogeneous. On the contrary, it is a good consistency. Indeed that it is a choreographic handset between men and snakes in a zoo with the video Nó na garganta (A knot in the throat) or a large tongue in papier mache, resin and red pigment, MORDER A Lingua (Bite your tongue), cut and placed on the ground in a blood pond, the artist’s recurring themes are perfectly upset, in particular the challenges of social and environment, ecology, the relationship to the living, the body, the predation … “the art of not being voracious” comes from a title of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector that Jonathas of Andrade took over for this exhibition. In short, a real manifesto.