MARCOS LUTYENS — ISLAND ARK
Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris
2 September - 4 November 2023
Vernissage: 2 September, 5pm
Galerie Alberta Pane presented Island Ark, a solo exhibition by Marcos Lutyens that transformed the gallery into a space of refuge, imagination, and ecological resonance. The project unfolded as a speculative vessel— part shelter, part sanctuary—navigating the rising tides of climate crisis and collective consciousness.
Through immersive installation, sound, and participatory elements, Island Ark invited visitors to enter a liminal zone between the real and the imagined, where survival is re-cast as communal dreaming and resilience as shared sensibility. The works called on deep memory and sensory experience, evoking a place where inner landscapes and outer ecologies intertwine.
Rooted in Lutyens’s ongoing explorations of hypnosis, environment, and social space, Island Ark proposed an alternative to isolation: a collective ark that carries both fragility and hope.