ART CITIES:Luxembourg -David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin

The artists David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, who work collaboratively, have different but complementary approaches to making art. David Brognon works instinctively, and regards the act of creation as a game. Stéphanie Rollin has a poetic sensibility and a more theoretical approach. A recurrent motif in their rigorous minimalist work is the sensitive contrast between the material and the immaterial world.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Casino Luxembourg Archive

The installations and videos of David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin are determined by their interest in marginal subject matter and issues relating to the fringes of society. While playing with double meanings and multiple references, their work presents the visitor with ambiguous situations marked by the tension between individual experiences and social conventions. Their fascination for ruthless systems of confinement and control is translated here into a work that refers to the prison system and alludes to the confines of our existence in an alienated society. Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain reopened after three months of renovation works, celebrating its 20th anniversary. The reopening of Casino Luxembourg coincides 20 years later, to the day, with its creation on March 22, 1996. On the ground floor, “BlackBox” is devoted to Contemporary video, for the reopening, the duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin presents a series of videos brought back from their recent trips to Israel since the start of the stabbing attacks that certain international media nicknamed “The intifada of knives”. In their recent video works, David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin explore the margins of territories of geographical, political, moral or psychological boundaries, that humans, at times brutally, have appropriated and defend or (un)consciously ignore. Curious and intrepid, the two artists go wherever their research takes them, working in the field and in direct and occasionally physical confrontation with their subjects. Risk-taking is integral to their approach, and the terrains on which they venture can prove extremely fruitful.

Info: Curator, Kevin Muhlen, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, 41 Rue Notre Dame or 7 Boulevard F. Roosevelt, Luxembourg, Duration: 23/3-30/4/16, Days & Hours: Mon, Wed & Fri-Sun 11:00-19:00, Thu 11:00-23:00, www.casino-luxembourg.lu