Galerie Dominique Fiat is pleased to present Itvan Kebadian's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, connected to L’Inséparé (2016). “Chaosmose” can be defined as a timeless mural that unfolds across the gallery’s walls like a uninterropted thread.

Ultimately, it constitutes a single black-and-white drawing, executed with aerosol spray and ink. Yet the drawing evolves and transforms, becoming a discontinuous and then abstract line as it dissolves into the gallery’s white space. Within the empty zones of its perspective, the mural appears only as traces, fragments, pieces, a raw and forceful gesture.

It reveals a world guided by gesture, both uncertain and conflictual, filled with collisions, dark passages, silent deserts, oversized buildings with barred windows, underground corridors that have never seen daylight, and advances toward the abyss. Tall staircases, streets, and sudden slopes slip out of reach or become distorted, stretching until they vanish, with shards of stone, piles of broken shapes, heaps of torn ruins, eventually yielding only flat expanses of darkness. The mural appears fragmented, suspended between emergence, mutation, and metamorphosis.

A dozen “frames” hung on the mural depict highly detailed and meticulously constructed scenes, drawn with a tubular-tipped pen. These scenes are both marked by utopia and porosity. Utopia arises from the alliance of these territories, while porosity creates echoes between spaces and opens a possible way out. Consider these thirty works as a network of signs drawn from the mural’s “reservoirs,” redistributing the place of each element and guiding the gaze simultaneously toward the near and the distant. The mural is built upon links and intertwinings, crossing and structuring the entire space like lines of union and division within a whole. These mediating images construct a dialogue within this circular chaos that at first appears indecipherable.

The approach is one of Revolt; the aesthetic of the sketch is also the sketch of an explosive world in many respects. Natural disasters, conflicts, wars, demonstrations, uprisings… reality takes precedence. And it is a socio-political commitment proclaimed loud and clear.