DS Galerie, Paris x Xxija Hii, London
Max Blotas, Glen Pudvine
For Art-O-Rama, DS Galerie and Xxijra Hii join forces to present a shared booth featuring works by Max Blotas and Glen Pudvine. Conceived specifically for the fair, the presentation brings together two practices that question contemporary forms of sociability and the figures that inhabit them.
Max Blotas’s installations function as stage devices: temples, offices, or nightlife spaces appear as mechanized models activated and filmed live. In Le Dauphin / Private Eyes (2026), he reconstructs an underground nightclub as a robotic miniature architecture built at a 1:20 scale. Hidden behind ventilation grilles, the space is only visible through a surveillance camera broadcasting a live feed of its interior. What initially appears immersive gradually reveals its artificiality, turning the club into a spectral place—a mechanical memory of the party.
In contrast, Glen Pudvine’s paintings reintroduce the body as a site of intensity and vulnerability. Drawing on classical painting and contemporary conceptions of the self, his nude figures appear in situations of radical exposure where personal anxieties, humor, and grotesque imagery coexist. In Turkish Get Up in Caravaggio (2025), the artist depicts himself almost life-size, confronting the viewer with a body that oscillates between mythological presence and absurd self-staging.
Together, the works create a tension between a mechanized collective space and a singular body, reinterpreting certain fictions of our present.
