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Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present the new solo exhibition by visual artist Claire Morgan in its Parisian gallery. Designed as an immersive experience, the exhibition A tentative strategy for a renewal, or, wanting to tell you everything and then changing my mind unveils her most recent work, including two new large-scale installations, several works in vitrines and many on paper. 

A tentative strategy for a renewal, or, wanting to tell you everything and then changing my mind reflects on the pain and inevitability of loss, but celebrates the powerful transformative potential that arises from the ashes of devastation. Morgan鈥檚 work draws on the cycles in nature to evoke the possibilities that can only occur when we make peace with our own vulnerability: 鈥淢y practice has been focused on how we humans understand and interact with the rest of the natural world, and our unwillingness to acknowledge our absolute lack of autonomy or control. I look at humans as animals, and the complexity of our intellectual dislocation from the landscape that sustains us. We behave as individual entities with fixed identities, but the reality is less clear. The 鈥渕e鈥� that I was a few days ago no longer exists.鈥� 

Morgan studies the catharsis that can occur when we express our fears and our darkest secrets. For the very first time in her work, the artist has replaced taxidermic animals with their skins. Her transition to the use of tanning reflects the need to discover a truth and exorcise her most deeply rooted fears. This practice goes back to prehistory, when animal skins were essential to humans鈥� survival. In the Victorian era, the activity took on a new meaning to reflect the hold of colonialism and the importance of notions of class and property: animal skins became trophies of excess. The supple skins, stripped from their bony carcasses, look like strange, empty envelopes. The artist associates this complex process with the need to spark a psychological and personal quest: 鈥淲hen you remove an animal鈥檚 skin for taxidermy, the gums are the last point where it remains attached. To see a body turned inside out like that, with the whole skin still attached by the teeth, it鈥檚 something that does not leave your memory鈥�.