Catégorie : Traductions d’ordre culturel

All in delicacy, Anne-Sophie Duca conjures up landscapes. Her drawings, similar to openings, capture the horizon of the countryside surrounding the town of Le Plessix-Madeuc (Brittany).

Through these views, the moment is being printed on the sensitive surface of the sheet. She produces her drawings in parallel and moves from one to another following her quest of the moment, being one with her work, which is being completed. Step by step, she embroiders her memories thanks to black dots of various intensities. She ventures into the image through a calligraphic writing by tracing what is left in her mind. A profound energy frees her graphic signs. These endless threads convey her perception of a crossing, of sensations and of the wind. Areas of oblivion are left, they emphasize the minuscule moment which was first perceived and then preserved. Through this wake, our gaze is invited to take a walk and to draw its own path. The landscape is thus opening a vast field of perception: where the gaze is fleeing, nature puts a mark on the walker’s body. This opening to the world proper to the stroller is conveyed by the artist thanks to the sparkle of the nature’s details captured live. If the landscap’s flesh merges with the body’s, her gesture reveals here the movements of nature.

As the creative process continues, the thread sometimes draws a fog which may betray the displacement of a cloud in the sky. Everything is at stake when the process of the landscape’s appearance stops thus leaving room for the viewer’s imagination.

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Collective exhibition from March 2014, the 7th to June 2014, the 12th

The encounters between other people living in other contexts are the source of a perpetual acculturation during which languages, behaviors, signs and shapes are continuously changing, sometimes by choice but often acted on coercion. Humankind thus becomes a machine for similarities and differences, attraction and destabilization, a universe of shapes and meanings in which each one tries to find his/her place.

Men and Worlds takes into account the human nomadic life and stages an exhibition in motion, which echoes the sounds, shapes and the diversity of the globe.

Gathering the artworks of seventeen international contemporary artists, among which a number of them have been produced especially for the exhibition, Men and Worlds offers itself as an aesthetic viaticum, a little supply of forms and contents, to face the great travel that globalization represents.

The exhibited artists are part of those who never stop but who play with this insatiable dynamic of things in order to better define themselves. Beyond concepts or great assertions, they take a subjective and personal look at the world, not to define but to grasp what and who constitute our universe in order to offer local and particular answers to the threats of global standardization.

Luggage or transient artworks, the exhibited creations show the multiplicity of identities and the translation from a certain “creolization” of the world into visual arts. They do not wish to belong to a hegemonic and binary model, they advocate for what Edouard Glissant termed “mondialité” or “worldliness” which allows them to explore the productive fields of humanity by making poetical artworks built out of mixed, fragmented and fragmentary aesthetics.

Exhibited Artists:

In production for the Collège des Bernardins:

Sylvie Fanchon, Djamel Kokene, Ingrid Luche, Chloé Quenum, Achraf Touloub, Stéphane Vigny, Jacques Villéglé

And also :

Nirveda Alleck, Rina Banerjee, Romain Bernini, Matthew Darbyshire , Basir Mahmood, Bruno Perramant, Franck Scurti, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Patrick Tosani, Jacques Villéglé, Chen Zhen.

Exhibition shown in the course of « Questions d’Artistes », a program of contemporary Art