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Guillaume Lachapelle‘s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful universes which combine objects of undetermined purpose; in this way, he opens the conventions of our reality to fresh disposition. The architecture of his models – which Lachapelle has recently begun to make with the help of the latest 3-D printing technology – shows motifs originating from the everyday, certainly, but seeming strange, alienating or even uncanny when combined as the artist chooses. A kind of transition between two worlds often appears inLachapelle‘s work – for example when the model of a library filled with books curves inwards and reveals a mysterious opening pointing into darkness – these are the artist’s references to spaces and occurrences which may be concealed below the surface of outward semblance. The centrepiece of the exhibition in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a large pedestal with a model that only seems like a miniature abandoned car park initially, with the sparse light of a few arc lamps hardly penetrating the surrounding darkness and rising fog, but when viewed carefully, a surprising spatial and stylistic complexity is revealed. Guillaume Lachapelle is also showing a series of further objects/models and a series of software-generated drawings.