Away with the fairies
online
March 7 - May 7
Olga Krykun
Away with the fairies
Olga Krykun
Jeremy Bobel
Aymeric Tarrade
Nina Minnebo
online March 7 - May 7, 2025
We’ve all been a bit “away with the fairies” at some point, especially recently. Time, already elusive, feels different since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Things feel different, worse somehow, pressurized. We’re chronically online and distracted, either consciously or unconsciously dissociating. In our extreme world, maybe you’ve leaned into something like micro-dosing mushrooms, maybe overspending, maybe exercising obsessively. Things that feel tangible, within our control, of our own bodies. Whatever it is, on some level, the goals are stability and survival. To be “away with the fairies”—what was once a way to say someone is a bit loopy and elsewhere—now feels like a necessary quality to incorporate into our lives. Focusing on our own personal whimsy and on our own little circles and bodies, on that which is within our reach, has become a coping mechanism.
The artists in this show are reacting to the current times with their own hallucinogenic realities - away with their fairies, so to speak. How and why this manifests is different for each of them.
________________
Olga Krykun’s (b 1994, Ukraine) work fuses elements of fictional narratives with references to real cultural and socially relevant symbols. A light-hearted otherworldly aesthetic reverberates in contrast to the meanings behind the works. From Ukraine, Krykun’s personal turmoil in watching her country and countrymen at war from afar is shown in “year 2/ Forget-me-nots 04” (2023), for example. Her practice is intuitive, emotional and personal but remains deeply relatable in its dream-like quality.
________________
Jeremy Bobel’s (b 1990, France) work is fantastical. His character Roger can be seen or implied in many of the works of his in this show. Roger represents a duality present in each of us as well as the almost maniacal injunction to be happy. Lulled by capitalism, Roger is a social character, a happy customer—almost anesthetized. Roger knows that he must return to a simpler and more independent life, far from increased consumption… but he doesn't know how. He is a child of capitalism and can’t extricate himself. He fishes in cocktail glasses and in his inflatable swimming pool, he anxiously dreams, sometimes finding momentary solace in nature. We are all Roger.
_edited.jpg)
________________
Aymeric Tarrade’s (b 1986, France) abstractions feel like captures of the singular moment when we shut our eyes and see a blurred kaleidoscopic version of whatever we most recently laid eyes on. He intertwines geometric and graphic elements with visual fragments from diverse sources such as movies, science fiction, graphic design, found images, and elements extracted from his direct surroundings. These visuals, removed from their original narratives, are brought together in a simple complexity or complex simplicity. They are remnants of our world that may not be fully recognisable, but evoke multiple possible origins and an uncanny resemblance.
________________
Nina Minnebo’s (Belgium) paintings and drawings are psychedelic and blissful renderings of everyday things. Her art is a dialogue between past and present, where childhood memories, fleeting adventures, and intimate reflections take form. She weaves personal history and everyday moments into a body of work that balances raw emotion with playful detachment. Recurring images throughout her work include dreamy dogs and lost horses—echoes of nostalgia—alongside mundane objects that gain poetic weight through her lens.
________________
Listed prices do not include VAT or shipping costs.
For more information contact info@ballonrougecollective.com
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Olga Krykun (1994, Odesa, Ukraine) received her bachelor's degree from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Studio of Supermedia) and pursued her master's degree in the Studio of Painting, which she received in 2021. Her thesis was nominated for the StartPoint Prize. During her studies she completed international internships at T.E.I. in Athens, The Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and National Taiwan University of Arts. In 2022 she became a holder of Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Krykun uses diverse types of media in her art work, including painting, objects and video, which she subsequently assembles to create complex installations. She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, and has also shown work in South Korea and Taipei. She is currently based in Prague.
Aymeric Tarrade, born in 1986 in Lyon, France, is a painter currently based in Brussels. Aymeric Tarrade holds a Bachelor in painting department from HEAD Geneva and a Master in Visual Arts from ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Tarrade practice question the perception of our visual culture and its possible narratives. His paintings are characterized by their intricate layering and fragmented compositions of found abstract elements. Aymeric Tarrade often realise immersive site specific installation in which his paintings are shown. Tarrade's works have been exhibited at the artist-run spaces The End of the World in Brussels, David Dale Gallery and Studio in Glasgow, and Forde art-space in Geneva. His work have also been shown at Truth and Consequences in Geneva. Tarrade has participated in group shows at CAN in Neuchâtel, Circuit in Lausanne, The Modern Institute in Glasgow, FMAC in Geneva, and La Salle de Bain in Lyon. From 2016 to 2018, he was part of the collective Thank You Very Much (TYVM), which organized events and exhibitions bring together visual arts, performance, and music in Glasgow.
Born in 1990, Jeremy Bobel is an interdisciplinary artist based in between Brussels and Paris. Lulled by popular culture and the question of common language, he cherishes a practice of collective and exchange. Seeking to investigate the paradoxes in which our social lives are caught: Expressing a deeply personal story in an unforgiving generic language, Bobel produces works that are universally understood. His work has shown in Belgium and France and he is one of the founders of the Brussel's based artist collective and gallery, Les Iles Mardi.
Trained at the Luca School of Arts, Nina Minnebo lives and works in Binche, Belgium. She seeks beauty in the grotesque, capturing imperfection in a way that seduces rather than repels. Her technique creates a perpetual sense of movement, reminiscent of a paused film frame—still, yet brimming with energy, as though the image might shift the moment you look away. Formerly working in abstraction she recently changed course after finding abstraction becoming predictable for her process. Minnebo has exhibited in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.