The pandemic rises from beneath the City through the secret passages that open into the bodies whose hubris proclaims them masters of the universe. A curse is worked, up from the belly of the earth and down from the catastrophe of the heavens answering in response. Here then is sorcery as art, it is art renewing itself as an occult practice through the placing of a deliberate curse, having rediscovered both necessity and mystery. Purpose is only ever found in the deep work of the abyss where few will ever venture; it is our place in the drama of existence and non-existence which the work of Bouschet and Hilbert initiate us into, in what is an unequalled and profoundly transformative Gesamtkunstwerk. It is no longer a question of picking a side, ideology is absent, granting us a biopolitics whose theology is of a world inoculated with entities whose liberation is absolute and unstoppable. - Peter Grey


Bio
Since the 1980s, alone or in collaboration with Nadine Hilbert, Gast Bouschet has created a complex body of work that challenges the fundamental principles underlying structure, visibility and power. His work spans a wide range of media, including photography, sound, video, painting, sculpture and writing. Bouschet’s art has been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions. Together with Nadine Hilbert, he represented Luxembourg at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In recent years, Bouschet has increasingly focused on what has been described as a primordial and uniquely blackened eco-sorcery that he practices away from the public eye in the Ardennes Forest.