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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Heart-light
4-color screen printing on Arches BFK 250g paper with fringed edges
30 copies, numbered and signed, 2022
Edition Eva Vautier
30 x 40 cm
Each individual has the ability to radiate their inner light.
Red, green, and blue (RGB), the primary colors of additive synthesis, evoke a return to universal notions, to what connects us, and to our capacity to love and be loved.
During a trip to Senegal, I visited a village where French was not spoken (and I do not speak Wolof). This experience made me reflect on human connections. I had to rely on other means to communicate with those around me, developing my intuition and inner sensations. The absence of words revealed a different type of connection—one of the heart.
Though each individual is unique, we all share the commonality of a heart within our chests. Blood flows through our veins, nourishes our bodies, and delivers life to our muscles.
I choose to transform this blood into light because, along with it, our emotions flow. The feelings that course through us are like blood—a driving force of life.
These emotions are ever-present in our lives, invisible and elusive, like light itself. Do we not feel our emotions when we speak of the “light of the heart”?
The use of screen printing brings to mind questions of light and multiplicity. This printing technique uses photosensitive emulsion that hardens when exposed to ultraviolet light, allowing for the creation of a series of prints.
I like to think that the most powerful emotion is love. I see in the light of this heart the essence of our shared humanity—our capacity to experience emotions, and above all, our ability to love and be loved.
