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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Diver
Series of 30 drawings, 2022
Linocut and marbling on paper,
H 50 x W 32.5 cm
The heart is the place of opening to others, of expansion of the self. It is a high place of emotional interaction.
Although each individual is unique, we all have a heart inside our chests. Blood runs through our veins, irrigates our bodies and transmits life in our muscles. Within this series, I use the symbol of the heart, which is for me a morphological, relational and spiritual link between humans.
I work on emotions using colors, which here are marblings that surround the heart. This technique uses coloring and water, a symbol of emotion. The marblings recall the history of beings and the memories written in the books of our stories.
In my opinion, despite the fixity of the image, there are different keys to reading. Its colors have no predefined direction, they come out of the heart and spread into existence in the manner of letting go; but they are also outside, and the heart bathes in them as it meets other hearts. Or they are both mixed. These feelings intertwine and create new stories.
These hearts say "Like a diver with courage and fluidity, I live and bring to life at every moment the experience of existence with emotion".
