As the
initial trio gradually shared then delegated the direction of the space to new members — most recently to Caroline Soyez - Petithomme, who codirected the space with Jill Gasparina from 2008, before becoming the sole director in 2013 — the aesthetic
choices have slightly shifted from an emphasis on site - specific, installation - based works to more formalist works, with an inclination towards abstract
painting and digital art.
My
initial choices were immediate:
paintings I look at and think about on a fairly regular basis: Caravaggio's seventeenth century
painting of John the Baptist's head, gormless, served up on a platter; Turner's epic Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812); Richard Hamilton's awful, painful, The citizen (1981 — 3).