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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Under-glass
Series of 15 frames, 2022
Frames, half-view glass, high-temperature paraffin wax, oil pastels.
H 25 x W 25 cm
Hearts are filled at all times with multiple emotions that intertwine. In this series, we can observe hearts made of white wax soaked in colored oil pastel, melted on glass of the mid-gaze type. These hearts, which can be viewed from behind or from the front, are suspended in the space held by a frame. As with a microscope, we can observe the movements of all its nuances on both sides of the glass.
Sometimes life touches us, our hearts melt, and our emotions spread. These frames are imprints of this movement of the heart. These melting hearts are put under glass just like butterflies blocked by needles.
The heart, once flowing, reveals the intensity of its emotions hidden inside us.
