Il n’y a pas d’autre rêve is a project that presents a
set of pieces that represent real places, focusing on
the idea of a place representation in a broad way,
but always with the common point: the loss of the
concept of the sacred and the trivialization of post-
modern world.

The exhibition pieces analyze several different
architectural objects and distant from each other but
all symptomatic of the Labadie´s artistic interests.

Rather than proposing a realistic view, the project
aims to define the place indirectly, proposing
displaced or derived representations by the
disappearance, subjectivity detail, interest in the
object or mythological displacement.

This conceptual effort is what allows the artist to
reject the banality, and humbly claim a practice that
escapes from reality.



Anonymous Man, Southdale Center

Impresión digital sobre papel
60x35cm


Anonymous Man, Southdale Center is one of two pieces
representing the Southdale Center, the first enclosed mall in the
world, by architect Victor Gruen. The photograph is scanned
and enlarged on detail of a picture of Life Magazine make for
its opening in 1956. This anonymous man is a reference to the
anonymous man in urban peripheries that Victor Gruen was
the first to define and to the “flaneur” of Walter Benjamin.



Terrazzo Floor, Southdale Center
Patchwork (fabric)
225x225cm
Terrazzo Floor, Southdale Center is a fabric piece handcrafted
made by the artist and his mother. It represents the current
floor of Southdale Center which here becomes pure abstract
space.



Block, El Quiñón Residential, Seseña
Graphite on paper
36x24cm

Block, the Quiñon Residential, Seseña is an isometric drawing
that reproduces infinitely one of the architectural modules
residential The Quiñon in Seseña (Toledo), an unfinished
urban project and almost uninhabited, resulting from the
crisis in the sector construction in Spain.



Smoking Area, Airport
Textual drawing on paper

Smoking Area, Airport mixture collage, drawing and text.
It proposes an original vision of a smoking cabin at Rome
airport. The work refers to the ritual of the pipe ceremony of
American Indians, a poetic attempt to sacralise a completely
standardized space.



Lexikon, Ikea
24 plaster books + shelf
110x30x28cm

Lexikon, Ikea is a sculptural and fictitious reproduction of
the Swedish Encyclopedia Bonniers (1995). Nowadays, Ikea
stores use them as a decoration. The work then ambiguously
translates the idea of universal knowledge used as a simple
physical and aesthetic object.



Temple Mrn, Hatra, Irak
Painting on canvas
100x73cm
Temple Mrn Hatra, Iraq is a minimalist painting. But under the
guise of minimalist pictorial, the disappearance of the Temple
of Hatra in Iraq is hidden, destroyed some months ago by the
Islamic State. The artist powerlessness against this barbarity is
translated by a simple act: representing the disappeared temple
using its architectural lines by Photoshop program guides.



The Lightener, Guiza
Neón y texto
5x70 cm


The Lightener, Giza is a neon which is written a chapter of The
Book of the Dead of Ancient Egypt. This work refers to the
lighting used in those tombs. A work that attempts a dialogue
between modernity and mythology.



Il n’y a pas d’autre rêve
Audio and speakers


Il n’y a pas d’autre rêve is an audio loop of an excerpt from the
song with the same title by the french group Mendelson. The
title is repeated to infinity and accompanies the exhibition as
an ironic music environment.

A contemporary absence of collective hope, the complete lyric
of this song propose a conceptual revolution, a revolution of
signs and language. A vision that is for Labadie what defines
the work of an artist.