Arnaud Quercy – “Free Will” at Dab Art’s WAIT GAIN Exhibition (Los Angeles)

Arnaud Quercy
Free Will – Research on Tensions #32
UV Print on Aluminum Dibond, laminated on MDF panel
50 × 70 × 1.3 cm | 2020
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Shown as part of Dab Art Co.’s WAIT GAIN exhibition, Free Will explores the illusion of autonomy through geometric tension and layered depth. Inspired by Spinoza’s philosophy, the work suggests that what we perceive as choice may be the visible surface of unseen causes.
“Each form is a decision—and a constraint. Like us.” — Arnaud Quercy
Dates:
March 5, 2022 8:30 am - June 5, 2022 5:00 pm
Status:
Archived
Location:
Los Angeles
Address:
Dab Art Co. Main Street Gallery
334 S. Main St., #5001
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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Phone: (213) 260-0556
Website: www.dabart.me/
Contact:
Yessica Torres
Hours:
Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5pm
334 S. Main St., #5001
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Email: Email venue
Phone: (213) 260-0556
Website: www.dabart.me/
Contact:
Yessica Torres
Hours:
Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5pm
I wanted to give form to the illusion—that what we call freedom may only be the visible tip of deeper forces. In Free Will, every shape is both deliberate and constrained, like us.
— Arnaud Quercy
Arnaud Quercy
Free Will – Research on Tensions #32
UV Print on Aluminum Dibond, laminated on MDF panel
50 × 70 × 1.3 cm | 2020
View on Artsy
arnaud-quercy-creations.com
Exhibited in: WAIT GAIN
Dab Art Co., Main Street Gallery, Los Angeles
March 5, 2021 – Online Exclusive
Exhibition Statement
Dab Art Co. proudly presented WAIT GAIN, a curated online exhibition honoring artists from our 2021 waitlist—creators whose compelling works deserved visibility beyond the limits of our in-person programming. Featuring a diverse range of media and concepts, WAIT GAIN offered a unique space for thoughtful engagement and overdue discovery.
Among the featured works was Arnaud Quercy’s striking piece Free Will, part of his ongoing conceptual series Research on Tensions. Rendered as a UV print on aluminum Dibond and mounted on MDF, the composition is both precise and enigmatic—embodying a philosophical exploration grounded in Baruch Spinoza’s metaphysical vision.
Free Will questions the autonomy of action through sculptural illusion and digital construction. Inspired by Spinoza’s assertion that human free will is a mere illusion—rooted in awareness of actions but ignorance of their causes—the work visualizes the deterministic threads binding existence. The composition’s abstract geometries and luminous spatial tension evoke the interplay between apparent freedom and underlying structure.
“Man is not an empire within an empire,” Quercy reminds us through this work, “but a fragment of the infinite substance—God or nature itself.”