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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Footprints
"Imprint" series
Thank you, 2024
Wallpaper, writing
Frame and anti-reflective glass.
20 x 17 cm
The series Empreinte explores the profound impact that words, spoken and heard, can have on the individual. Certain sentences, like invisible arrows, pass through us and leave lasting traces, sometimes beyond what the mind can grasp. I chose to draw a parallel between skin and wallpaper, and between the body and the house, to express this idea: words are not limited to a simple mental interaction, but penetrate our flesh, generating physiological, emotional reactions and sometimes even internal upheavals.
In this series, the floral wallpapers embody these positive words, bouquets of tenderness, kindness and comfort, words that we want to keep close to us. These words, when spoken with sincerity, are never trivial; they create a real connection between those who exchange them. And if these words touch us deeply, it is undoubtedly because they resonate with an echo in the other – a reciprocal, intimate and human resonance.
Through this reflection, I wish to explore how words can shape, transform and mark our being. Positive sentences, like flowers on a wallpaper, intertwine to form a landscape of softness, but also of strength, because they are capable of anchoring us and nourishing our soul. The Empreinte project questions the nature of these invisible but powerful connections that leave lasting marks.
All frames were made with anti-reflective glass,
Many thanks to Henri Dumont for all his help.
