Free Will

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.”