Simoncini Gallery to Exhibit Works by Luxembourg-American Poet Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte

Galerie Simoncini (6 Rue Notre Dame, 1648 Luxembourg) has announced that it will be hosting an exhibition by Luxembourg-American poet Pierre Joris and his artist wife Nicole Peyrafitte from 5 June to 15 July 2021.

Under the title "Karstic Actions / Works", this exhibition comprises paintings, texts and videos which reveal the work of Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, two artists who intervene in each other's territory and whose works feed on each other. This is a second installment of the couple's Domopoetic Works.

The new exhibition will occupy three levels of the gallery: the "Karstic Refuge" on the ground floor, where the artists' domestic and political processes interconnect and transform; the "Sanctuary" in the basement, which is neither holy nor secret but a table / altar for their intimate domopoetic works; the "Canopy" on the second floor, where the diversity and resilience of multi-species relations can be experienced. 

A live "performance action" will open the exhibition on the ground floor on 4 June 2021 at 18:00.

These environments reflect the complexity of Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte's karstic domopoetic processes. "Domopoetics" is the name they give to this daily practice of transformation in their works, be it writing, painting, video, physical conditioning or their shared household and familial activities. "Karstic" refers to the geological phenomena of dissolution and transformation at work in the formation of superficial or underground limestone topographies. By a similar principle of infiltration, language transforms into poem, breath into song and coloured chalk become pastel into marks on paper or canvas.

Pierre Joris will also be in Luxembourg at the end of this month for the presentation of his prize at the National Literature Centre (Centre National de Littérature - CNL).