"Far removed from the numbing speed"
Almine Rech, London

“In the continuity of the objects he collects, said to be rooted in the old, or even archaic, imagination, Johan Creten injects, with this set of sculptures, a dose of “sacredness” into our mundane lives. By offering us lyrical interludes that reconnect us to the reality of a universal “Whole”, these works restore an existential meaning into the emptiness of the everyday, disorientated by its hyper-connection to the social media's “virtual” theatre. In these times of turmoil and disillusionment, their depth inspires us, day after day, with the creative energy we need to transform ourselves. Did Baudelaire not see in the Symbolist dream of Wagnerian operas “the index of modernity”, in other words, the advent of a new world?”

— David Herman, artistic director and curator