@liste_art_fair_basel Showtime highlight nr 8: #GuillaumeValenti @parliamentunlimited @gllmvalenti Worlds cut off from the world, the museum and the amateur cabinet are among the rare spaces designed to draw attention to their walls, and thus act on the temporary but clear separation between their users and the rest of reality. Guillaume Valenti is interested in the image on the wall, or more specifically in the image of the image on the wall. In the same way as in theatre, the paintings constitute a synthesis and a mediation of reality in a restricted space-time continuum, a scenic composition which isolates a moment from the common world to then return to it with a different eye. His works represent contemporary art exhibition spaces, oddly austere and familiar places, which he encloses in his paintings like one would in a box. The physical edges of the chassis form the fourth wall. He reconstitutes them with a concern for realism for which he makes them ecological units of museums to be transplanted into other museums, impenetrable dioramas which create the illusion of frontality and do not tolerate sideways vision. The exhibition spaces are always designed as decor sets for the eyes. Inside, abstract works, sometimes barely palpable; a legacy of minimalism that still seeks to define the structure of the painting and the radiance of the sculpture in the contained air of the room. Our vision passes through and stops again on the limits of the space in which they are encamped.