SUBSTRATE
September 4 to October 27, 2022
Collective exhibition, no-made
The villa "Le Roc Fleuri", Cap d'Ail.
For its twenty-second year of exhibition on the site of the Villa Le Roc Fleuri in Cap d'Ail, the artists of no-made and its guest artists (local, national and international) were asked to respond to the theme SUBSTRAT.
Through this word SUBSTRATE, it is the feeling of essence, of the basis of contemporary art but also its mutations, its developments that are sought. SUBSTRATE then becomes the fundamental support of the moving plastic act, perhaps the solid base of artistic proposals?
We will exhibit the plastic, sound and performance proposals of twenty-seven artists. These proposals will define a stroll between what we will call: the apparent, the reigns of the living, death and rebirth, stratum and trace and finally under the house.
The apparent is situated in SUBSTRAT as a welcome for the visitor which from the outset questions the vanity, roots and heritage of plastic action.
The kingdoms of the living will use the mineral, the vegetable or the animal as SUBSTRATE of the work in its development. Death and rebirth traps materials, destroys them, reconstructs them. Its transformations make the plastic productions of artists kinetic in "nothing is lost, nothing is created: everything is transformed" Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier.
Strate et trace is a narration of SUBSTRAT in its chronology and its desire for memory in the form of written traces, installations, mineral, pictorial or sound fragments, witnesses of the effects of time. Sous la maison ends the journey of this exhibition in enclosed spaces outside the garden, where videos and installations dialogue and respond to each other on the reasons for SUBSTRAT.
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Watery Batiks
Triptych
Dye, wax, fabric
Watery Batik, Dismay , 2021
H 308 x W 196
Watery Batik, Observation , 2021
H 168 x W 123
Watery Batik, Peace, 2021
H 229 x W 208 cm
Batik is a technique of printing fabrics that dates back a little over a thousand years. It uses a wax resist system, which, once the fabric is dyed, is removed to reveal the pattern.
The batik technique has the particularity of letting light pass through the fabric, illuminating and bringing this suspended moment to life. Light is an integral part of these pieces.
The watery batiks are frozen moments of a state of consciousness. In this series, it is a question of taming our emotions. Here, the passage is created by dismay, contemplation and finally peace. The characters interact with the water element, symbol of emotions. They modify their behavior towards it, following their listening and acceptance of their interior. The triptych calls to connect to one's body, mind and soul.
