Lukas Hoffmann’s polyptych titled “Bronx River Avenue” (2016), an assemblage of six large panels measuring a total of 181,5 cm by 723 cm, is a walking experience through time, space, and materials. The frontal vantage point immerses the viewer’s gaze directly into the almost tactile image on the surface, causing the subject to fade behind its representation. Exploring textures—what the artist calls the “granular” aspects of an object, person, vegetation, or landscape—is an integral part of his photographic investigations. Capturing the subtleties of change, often barely perceptible yet continuous over time, reveals the magic of unexpected and fleeting moments. Here again, temporality is at the core of Hoffmann’s work; it is also, to his mind, at the core of the medium itself.

Hoffmann’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and he has also taken part in numerous group shows, notably at the Centre Pompidou. His works can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Centre national des arts plastiques, the Frac Auvergne, the Fondation Hermès, Crédit Suisse, Bank Vontobel, SwissRe and Neuflize Vie, as well at the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne. Lukas Hoffmann lives and works in Berlin.

Galerie C was founded in 2011 in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) by Christian Egger. Nine years later, in September 2020, a second exhibition space opened its doors in Paris, in the heart of the Marais district. Conceived as a projectspace, open to the street, modular and flexible. Working in close collaboration with artists, the gallery aims to break with the notion of the gallery as an elitist space, offering instead a place to support, discover and share with the public, and creating a link between different typologies of collectors, institutions and art lovers. Favoring a literal and poetic approach to the way art is shown, Galerie C conceives curatorial exhibitions with its own team, convinced that this is the best way not only to defend artists’ works, but also to talk and write about them.