Cyril Tyrone Hübscher's Faux Terrain at CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel

Cyril Tyrone Hübscher's exhibition 'Faux Terrain' at CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel explores the tension between illusion and reality through deliberately artificial materials. The show features cardboard walls, stone-like sculptures, painted surfaces, and cut-outs that openly assert their constructed nature, rejecting any pretense of authenticity. Hübscher draws a parallel between the exhibition and a garden—both are highly controlled spaces that stage nature, but while gardens conceal their artifice, 'Faux Terrain' makes the act of construction visible. The artist argues that this 'falsehood' becomes a form of honesty, contrasting with everyday objects like flat-pack furniture or plastic mimicking marble that deceive through simulation. The exhibition extends this critique to symbolic structures like nation-states and institutions, suggesting they are fragile constructions. By refusing illusion, Hübscher exposes the fictional dimension of daily experience, creating a space where truth emerges from acknowledged artifice. The show runs at CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel.