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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Collaborative puzzle
This performative piece is a collaborative puzzle, 2022
Protocol
- Give a piece of the puzzle at random to the willing participants. Once the piece is accepted, the responsibility for the piece belongs to the purchaser.
- Announce where the place is located where the puzzle can possibly be built.
- Announce once all the pieces are given that the collaborative puzzle can begin.
This collaborative piece asks people to position themselves in relation to a collective project.
People can adopt different attitudes,
they can participate actively,
they can give the part and their responsibility to the active group,
they can create a contrary movement voluntarily or involuntarily by keeping the piece
and finally they can refuse to participate by refusing the puzzle piece.
This game questions the individual regarding his own positioning as well as the evolution of this positioning in relation to the positioning of the other participants.
The image of the puzzle is a photo of Loren McIntyre recovered from the magazine Géo n° 19 of September 1980. It is written on it "1800: the explorer's rest/ there is a paradise at the gates of the green hell: Cumana. In this port in Venezuela, one can bathe in the natural pools where, in 1800, the baron would settle in the evening with his feet in the water and a cigar in his lips admiring the tropical night. "we are in the most divine country" he noted "
