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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Fragments
Etched anti-reflective glass plates, fabric and colored nets, 2022
Installation at the villa le Roc Fleuri, cap d'ail
Although each living being has its particularities, they all come together through the immutability of their evolutions. At the junction of this division, we can see the echo of the life force that pushed this branch to grow. This structure of development is found at different scales outside and within us.
Glass allows to reveal the substrate of life often invisible, yet present and essential. Between each plate, it is possible to imagine the growth of the tree. The fine engraving and the Glass material want to emphasize the preciousness of this evolution. And supported by the attention that one could bring to it.
The piece is installed on a tree branch, as if to make the invisible energy of the tree visible.
This installation attempts to break down a universal movement of life and highlights its evolution, its fundamental structure.
