Image: Templon, Paris
Templon will present Oda Jaune’s solo exhibition ‘The Other’ in Brussels from 10 September to 31 October 2026. The forthcoming show gathers a new body of paintings and watercolours examining otherness, extending the artist’s attention to the visible and invisible dimensions of living beings.
The exhibition takes shape in a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, plant life, technology and the imaginary are in constant flux. Rather than assigning the other a fixed identity, Jaune describes it as a presence that may move between artificial intelligence, an unknown species and the self. “The other is everywhere,” the artist says. “It resists definition and may take the form of artificial intelligence, an unknown species, an invisible presence, or a reality that eludes our categories. Perhaps it is also that unexplored part of ourselves. Perhaps it has always been within us, accompanying each of our transformations.”
That expansive formulation gives the show its subject without resolving it. Templon frames otherness as a fundamental condition of existence amid technological, ecological and social upheavals that are reshaping relationships with the living world. The paintings envision modes of being that elude conventional categories and give tangible form to what resists language.
Jaune’s practice has long returned to bodies, metamorphosis and the unconscious. In the gallery’s description, forms remain in a state of becoming: bodies stretch, split and undergo metamorphosis within luminous atmospheres in which beauty and disquiet coexist.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1979, Jaune studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf before developing an interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture and installation. While painting remains central to her work, she has also pursued sculpture in bronze, ceramic and blown glass. She lives and works between London, Paris and Bulgaria.
Among the works identified in connection with ‘The Other’ are the 2023 oil paintings ‘V like Virgin’ and ‘Untitled’.
