| Rapporteur Léa Djurado : rapporteur at the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs of Île-de-France and assistant curator at the Centre d’art contemporain Chanot de Clamart |
The winners of AIA 2020
Estèla Alliaud
Estèla Alliaud’s practice oscillates between sculpture and photography. She creates fragmented sculptures that hold in a precarious balance that she fixes by the photographic lens. Working in tones ranging from white to gray, she scrupulously studies the places of exhibition to then choose the material, the location of the work according to the light and immortalize it in photography. The image is often exhibited alongside the existing sculpture.
– Untitled (filed), 2016 photograph, inkjet print 21×30,5cm/ Sculpture two painted wooden boards production La BF15 – Views of the exhibition “La mesure du doute”, solo exhibition, La BF15, Lyon, 2016 – Untitled (with support), 2015 22×31.5 cm, photography inkjet printing, production L’aparté, place of contemporary art
Marion Auburtin
Marion Auburtin’s work is populated by dreamlike beings imbued with a disturbing strangeness. His ceramics are inspired by kitsch trinkets that have been bequeathed to him and that take under his brush a dimension both fatal and endearing. Her work is akin to a cabinet of curiosities where she studies the fine line between still and living life.
– Les Oiseaux (2), 2018, glazed ceramic, 30x35cm – Untitled, 2014, synthetic hair, plaster. – Loop Island, music boxes, glazed ceramic, 10×15 cm each. Exhibition Le Cristal qui songe, Le Bon Accueil, Galerie Art et Essai, Rennes
Florent Audoye
Florent Audoye’s hybrid work (between performing and visual art) dissects the invasion of bureaucracy, and the omnipresence of the corporate world in our personal environment. Through his performances that parody the bureaucracy Florent Audoye shows the normative power of administration in our identities and bodies.
– #teamworkmakesdreamwor, 2018-2019, installation, variable size, View of the Biennale PACT(e), Carreau du Temple, 2019 – BUROGAI, 2019,workshopperformatif, Triangle France – Astérides, la Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille – Managing, 2018, colour video, 17’00’, son, Film shot in residence at the Windsor Hotel, Nice
Matthieu Becker
Matthieu Becker questions the means of display of editorial objects, he creates reading devices at the limits of the installation, a “library object”. These devices make it possible to arrange, classify, consult but above all to interfere in the intimate relationship between the public and the book. He creates and publishes within his publishing house LeMégot objects-books where form and substance tend to be one.
– WHERE I SLEEP WHERE I WORK, LeMégot éditions Janvier 2019 (coming soon), Livre, 14x21cm – 250 pages, Offset/ Reliure: Dos Collé 100 copies, – COMING OUT, 2013, installation, galerie DeLaCharge, Bruxelles 7, – Cuvée Ramponeau, 2018 Installation, 175x250cm Mobiliers, Outils, Publications
Louidgi Beltrame
Louidgi Beltrame’s work develops a documentation of the modes of human organization. It moves on modern historical sites: Hiroshima, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Chernobyl or the mining colony of Gunkanjima off Nagasaki. His films, which are based on the recording of reality and the constitution of an archive, appeal to fiction as a possible way of considering history.
– Whatever the intentions of these forms in the desert, solo exhibition at the Kunstverein in Langenhagen from 14 September to 15 November 2015 – El Brujo – Louidgi Beltrame, 2016, 4K film, HD transfer, 11 min 27 sec, stereo sound – Mesa curandera, 2018, full-spectrum HD video, 2h 50mn, sound 5.1 – 4 Mécanique des Roches, 2010, ammonite fossil, altuglas, brass, wood, 80 X 120 X 40 cm
Mélanie Blaison
Mélanie Blaison chose paper as her preferred material, she works with found papers that are put to the test by the artist’s hand. She organizes her papers according to a precise almost administrative documentation. It is then that the drawing occurs as a series of gestures in adequacy with its support. In exhibitions, she arranges these papers found in landscapes.
-Untitled, paper, chalk dries 25 drawings bound A4, 2015-2017, – The city, texts to read aloud, How to become a soft corpse recomposed in a light fabric DQ Press, Revue, 2019, – Untitled, detail, scraps of paper, egg, lemon, pigment about 50 pieces, detail of an essay on table variable formats, 6B drawing fair, St Denis, 2017et – 3 weeks, 2011-2013, mixed media, cardboard, paper, chalk, ink, eraser, binding, pigment, glue, comment, 115x238x60 cm, installation
Juliana Borinski
Juliana Borinski explores the media and how it works through the study of its raw material: chemistry and the camera. She does not use the camera or camera, she chooses photosensitive paper or film. She explores chemical reactions directly on the medium, and what was to be the subject’s receptacle becomes the material of her work. By this technique the artist seeks error, chance, each piece is unique at a time when a photograph is infinitely manipulable and reproducible.
– TOUCH / Film Performance 16mm loop / 2017, – A Photographers’ Nightmare, dimensions 120 cm 120 cm x 25 cm, single piece concept of 12 prints / 2013 and – Between Humiliation and Happiness, photograms, 2. dimensions 50 x 60 cm, 2013
Roxane Borujerdi
Roxane Borujerdi has a formal repertoire of nature, picture books, children’s games… Which gives a familiar but also strange appearance to his pieces. His work is based on a serial practice from a reduced corpus of shapes and colors that are declined according to different arrangements. This repertoire of forms is governed by games whose rules are absurd and poetic. Visitors then favor an immediate approach to the work that is manipulated, experienced, experienced.
– Take off, hold the length, 2019, chalk mural and glazed earthenware tiles, Chapelle Saint-Tugdual, Quistinic (L’Art dans les chapelles), – Rose argent Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris, – Rose argent Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris, 4 Sans titre, 2018, enamelled earthenware – research around the color initiated during a residency at ENSA Limoges
Baptiste César
Baptiste César’s practice is often activated in the heart of the public space because it is formed “by impulse of the in situ” and develops through his research on the place. It addresses both the limits of common sense, the magic of everyday life, the audacity of the gesture and the spirit of adventure in the public space. Through his works, Baptiste César can equally approach an anecdotal news as catastrophic, he invents his own history, his critical scenario.
– “Disparaître ici”, light box and adhesive lettering Jetée-Promenade, Nice 2004 – Exhibition “La Prom’ for workshop” view of the installation Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice 2015 – “Errer le Nuit”, light box, red plexi letters Villa Arson Nice 2004 – “Le Râ d’Ô Parisis”, raft in recycled materials Residence at Villa Belleville, 1. Paris 2017
Nina Chalot
Nina Chalot develops a practice at the border of design, performance, architecture and sociology. This transversality allows him to take a cross-look, each time enriched with new ways of transforming the real. She currently combines artistic projects and collaborations with different structures in the field of scenography and architecture. She also teaches ceramics and design.
– Hamlet, 2019, Stage design, Opéra-comique – Ruedi, 2014, ceramic tile sets – Fox Trot, 2020, performance, dance, city theatre
Jean-Louis Chapuis
Jean-Louis Chapuis is a graphic designer and co-founder of l’Espace d’en bas and the Warmgrey studio. Her artistic and graphic practice feed each other. Like an interventionist intermediary, Jean-Louis Chapuis gives visibility to other artists through multiple projects. Thus, building bridges between artistic and curatorial practices, he proceeds to a circulation of works by a game of compilation/ editing and in various forms associating text, image, drawing and/ or volume.
– Ensemble continu, 2018 galerie Haus, Nantes – GOOD, 2020, with Marc Domage and – D.DAYS, 2014, installation
Adjim Danngar
Adjim Danngar trained at «L’atelier Bulles du Chari» from 1999 in N’Djamena. He published his first drawings in the monthly for youth “Rafigui” before drawing in the satirical newspaper «The Mirror». He then participated in many international caricature competitions (Yaoundé, Turin, N’Djamena) and won the prize of the Turin caricature competition in 2004 (Africartoon). He was forced to leave Chad the same year after being threatened for having addressed sensitive topics (social and political) in his publications and cartoons. Now based in Paris, he participated in the exhibition «Vues d’Afrique» at the Angoulême Festival in 2006.
Mamie Denis: 110 original plates, B&W, India ink and digital color, format A3 – Thembi and Jetjet: 8 original plates, B&W, India ink and digital color, format A3 and – AQMI to both of us, 2013 Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
Armand de Benoist
Born between 1989 and 1991, Armand de Benoist de Gentissar Brieuc Remy, Théodore Dumas, Caroline Chauvelot began working together during their studies at the Beaux-Arts de Reims and founded Chevaline Corporation in 2014. Together they produce polymorphic works to elaborate a common fiction. Invited by Maison Louis Jardin 2019, Chevaline Corporation creates Parc à huîtres: it sets up its offices in the exhibition space and stages an unprecedented ballet where each member performs his own role. During twelve performances, they reveal to the viewer their mode of action.
– Oyster Farm, 2019, Oyster Revelations – Silicone Carne, 2019 Chevaline Corporation
Laurence de Leersnyder
Laurence De Leersnyder projects a form and a material in the spaces where she is invited to intervene… Manipulations are often against-use of the material. On the other hand, the artist’s gesture can also lead to the conservation of a form through its trace, its imprint, the molding process punctuates the entire work of Laurence De Leersnyder. The artist, following her places of residence, gleans fruits, plants, seeds that she immortalizes in bronze casting. This vegetal and precious grammar contrasts with the material altered by the gesture.
– Carpothèque/ Collection of various fruits and associated bronzes – An inverted sky on Earth, 2015 plaster, wood
Alexandre del Torchio
Through installations, images and sound, Alexandre del Torchio explores a universe where retinal persistence intersects, electromagnetic recordings, or even acceptance of silence. Through his devices, he places the viewer at the heart of a sensory experience that acts on his landmarks. The visitor can find himself in a confined and isolated space. His projects feed on the concert experience, the immediacy and energy of live music, a brutal and ecstatic experience that leads to a form of resistance or letting go.
Gabriel Desplanque
Gabriel Desplanque intervenes in the public space, often on the public statuary that he reactivates either by performance or by intervening directly on it and raises the question of the place of art in everyday life. He looks at the public space through the photographic lens. How public images shape our imagination and vice versa is what concerns the artist.
– Le bois (2017-2018) – 20 minutes – photographs from the installation – The remains of the child with the pan flute – 100 artists in the city, Montpellier
Bertrand Dezoteux
Bertrand Dezoteux produces experimental films with 3D modeling software to create hybrid visual objects. These films describe the condition of digital avatars, their life in ecosystems subject to the laws of machines. Bertrand Dezoteux’s work is based on a form of deliberate clumsiness, far from the aesthetic canons of the film entertainment and video game industry: animations are not always fluid and do not aim for realism.
– Animal Glisse , 3D Animation / 2015 / 10min – Zootrope, 3D Animation, video / 2019 / 14min, – Super-reign, 3D Animation / 2017 / 13min
Aymeric Ebrard
Aymeric Ebrard draws broad lines that always return to an origin. Questioning the notions of center and axis, as those of abscissa and ordinate, horizon, vertigo, expanse, infinity, he deploys what remains of a mysterious human comedy whose system rhythms the space as much as it defines it. By emphasizing the fundamental geometry, he draws an abstract landscape where decors or characters meet, primordial signs or totems marking the crossroads.
– Le rAyOn De SChArZSChIlD, 2010 Palais de tokyo Paris – 100 W Corsicana 2018 – Zuiveringshal West Amsterdam, 2010 1. 2. 3.
Vincent Epplay
Vincent Epplay, visual artist/ musician, designer and director of sound environments, he develops a multifaceted research involving the materiality of sound and its modes of diffusion/ reception. Using installed sound devices or live interventions, he questions the relationship between sound and image, the context of broadcasting (duration, place) and the relationship to the audio-spectator.
– Workshop of sounds and spontaneous expression, 2020, video – Nemotechnie sonore & muscale, 2019, video – Xenoglossie radio, 2019
Elise Florenty
Elise Florenty mixes fiction with reality by sampling and editing. His works are made from images, texts accumulated through readings, notes, memories and impressions of travels, elements extracted from reality around the complexity of the relationship of the individual to the world. Since 2010, she has worked in pairs with Marcel Türkowsky specializing in music and sound art. They explore historical and sociopolitical situations through the prism of altered states of consciousness (lucid follies, hallucinations, dreams). Her research questions the multiplication of the self through different contexts, geography, history and politics.
– Conversation with a cactus, HDV – Super8 2017 – 45min – Neither a, nor not-a, Double video projection screw, HDV, Super 8 2015 – 11min20s – The other side of the moon, wood, colored nets, painting, 400x260cm
Mark Geffriaud
Through installations, sculptures, films and performances, Mark Geffriaud plays with the multiple representations of time and the construction of memory. The appearance (circulation) and disappearance (oblivion) of images and forms lay the foundations of a fragmentary archaeology in which misunderstanding, free association, fiction develop.
– Raul D., 2019, t-shirt encré et passé sous presse – two thousand fifteen, 2016 synchronized projections, shutters, voiceover – THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON, wood, coloured nets, paint, 400x260cm
Jeff Guess
Jeff Guess combines performance and photography, pursuing various operating modes where the gesture, body or voice of the artist intervene successively. Over the last ten years, a third notion has been introduced, algo-rhythmic, which more explicitly opens its research to the question of language.
– Kittlerbot, Installation view, New Projects, Veronica Project Room, Seattle, 2019 – Seamlessness, Installation view, Shelter or Playground – The House of Dust at the Schindler House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2019 – MORGAN’S CANON, 2018 , Custom software (HTML5/ CSS/ Javascript) FullHD video projector – Hypotheses, Installation view, The Tyranny of Distance, Galerie Thézé, Esba TALM Angers, 2018
Hendrik Hegray
Hendrik Hegray’s creations are visual traps that dismantle codes, hacking into the act of creation itself to create a kaleidoscopic imaginary that is both wild, disturbing and joyful. An art of the paradox he cultivates, for a figure of the artistic scene who positions himself on the fringes of the art world by his radicalism and his multi-disciplinary work.
– Hendrik Hegray, Egipan 98, 2019 Collage. 29.7 x 21 cm. Unique – Jonas Delaborde and Hendrik Hegray, NK 12 EGIPAN, 2019. View of the exhibition “Futur, ancien fugitif”, Palais de Tokyo 1. 2.
Malo Kerfriden
Malo Kerfriden after studying art history in Rennes, joined the fine arts workshop of Angoulême in 1994 for three years. At the same time, he played bass in the band “The lost Minds” which published an album and two singles on the English label Detour records. In Angoulême he works in the workshop of already confirmed authors like Denis Bajram or Richard Marazano. In 1997, back in Rennes, he founded the Twin Peaks workshop with two former students of Angoulême: Lionel Chouin and Marc-Antoine Boidin. His comic book references include Rochette or Lauffray as well as Otomo. Finally David Chauvel offered to take over Quarterback.
– Malo Kerfriden and Marie Gloris Bardiaux-Vaïente, L’abolition, le combat de Robert Badinter, ed. Glénat, 2019 and Malo Kerfriden, La Rage, Canal BD, 2013
Bérénice Lefebvre
Bérénice Lefebvre is attached to printed techniques: photography, printing, collage, installation. The artist speaks of his approach with these words: “My approach […] is part of a daily investigation of urban space, territory from which we can observe a multiplication of frames and screens.” Bérénice Lefebvre anchors his work in a landscape historically marked by large architectural ensembles. The creations of Bérénice Lefebvre strive to account for his wanderings in the heart of changing architectural environments, on the outskirts of major cities.
– 25 METRE OF FRAMES , 2014 , Digital frame, inkjet printing on white coated paper 130g 600 x 500 cm, In-situ installation – WINDOWS, 2014 , B&W photomontage, digital inkjet printing White adhesive paper coated with vegetable oil 600 x 360 cm, In-situ installation – JUNK SPACES, 2014, Photomontages B&W, prints and digital on plan plotter White coated paper 90g, 500 x 450 cm
Géraldine Longueville
Géraldine Longueville conceives the exhibition as temporary situations welcoming several devices and modes of collective productions in the form of performances, workshops, residences or diners. Since 2017, she has been working on the sensory transmission of political, medicinal and botanical data, mainly making drinks and songs. She approaches the knowledge of plants, our environment and territories by transmitting forgotten knowledge.
– Soil Sand Seed, 2018, installation, beverage: burdock root, ash leaves and bark, red clover leaves and flowers, Scots pine buds, Scots pine essential oil, hibiscus flowers. , voice, lyrics – A State of Water, 2017, performance
Elsa Mazeau
Elsa Mazeau made her first photographs during a project with the Yanomami Indians in 1997, in the Brazilian Amazon. Having to entrust them with the camera to enter into a relationship and not «steal their soul”, it therefore follows a photographic practice, initiated by this way of making images, entrusting the camera to the other, to pool the image. The public space becomes his studio. This practice is based on collaborative processes, so research is activated by the inhabitants themselves. His work then tends towards a physicality of the image, in order to reinscribe the lived space from the point of view of experience.
– aNtIKpooL, 2010, video installation – Khettaras, 2016 and 2019, dyptic, direct metal prints, 100 x 330 cm – vIvaNte equestrian statue, 2016, direct polystyrene prints, 120 x 80 cm, 60 x 60 cm and 60 x 40 cm, video
Hélène Mourrier
Hélène Mourrier is an artist and graphic designer, in her practice, these two areas are porous, their rallying point is activism that focuses on gender issues, transidentity. They create environments immersed in a dark atmosphere like an intimate club, the space is dotted with sparkling ceramics, cut fabrics, posters of queer imagery or wobbly sculptures. Hélène Mourrier also creates a series of scientific illustrations showing the process of sex change, both didactic, committed and artistic illustrations. All these materializations are often the traces of performances where she engages her body in powerful dances.
– La table des négociations, 2019, Biennale internationale de design – I’m going out tonight, glass box – Opétrans feminiante et masculinisantes, OUTrans édition 2018-2020
Frederick Nauczyciel
Frédéric Nauczyciel is part of the legacy of American post modern dance, he trained with the American choreographer Andy Degroat. It puts the body in play by dragging them to the “post genres” or the “post racial”. Frédéric Nauczyciel imagines his pieces as installations that recreate the conditions of a sensitive experience, those that the protagonists and the artist have gone through: a documentary experience, in short he wants to create “a plastic experience”.
– Intimate Home, Photographic Series, 2009 – Vogue à l’âme – Red Shoes, 2015, vidéo 4 min 17
Simon Nicaise
Simon Nicaise confronts objects and materials while infusing them with a fragile and poetic renewed brilliance. In the wider field of sculpture, Simon Nicaise’s work refers to his close environment, his workshop in particular, as well as the materials that compose it. From simple actions – to assemble, pierce, magnetize, suspend, Simon Nicaise diverts objects from their initial function or meaning.
– Index, 2012-2016, 5 engraved dice, 2 x 2 x 2 cm every 2.6 days/ 8 hours, 2019, 14 ceramic buttons, vest and jacket, about 2 x 2 x 1 cm each button – Cane, 2019 , Resin plaster, 110 x 6 x 6 cm
Chrystèle Nicot
Under the sign of diversion, the work of Chrystèle Nicot is part of globalization, a globalized and hyperconnected culture. Aware of the power of persuasion exerted by entertainment media as well as the power of fiction, the artist feeds on cinematic codes and popular culture (video games, web-series and social networks) to create his videos. From the plot to the love drama through reality TV, the thriller or the historical fable, Chrystèle Nicot plays with the parameters of narrative construction. The artist questions the impact of stereotypes and puts in tension the expectations of the viewer. Behind archetypal characters and elementary staging that borders on parody, emerge essential questions about the power of images and their impact on the nature of our relationships.
– The Usual Office / обыкновенный офис, Corpus of 14 videos, 56 min total, 2020 – TEENAGE DRAMA (WESTERNIZED KOREANESS=HYBRIDIZATION AND, LOVE) 2018, 17:47 – Huddle room, interactive installation for “the Usual Office” with support from the ZIL Cultural Center, Moscow 2020
Louise Pressager
Louise Pressager’s images and song lyrics are based on the same inspiration. With humour, she invests themes at the heart of contemporary debates such as work, religion, mental health and gender issues. It operates in a great economy of formal means. Whatever the mode of expression (drawing, video, installation, song…), his visual and textual language is simple and direct, like his clear and clear voice.
– Missed appointment, 2020.HD digital video. 5 min. 52 sec. – House, 2014. Digital photograph. 60 x 80 cm – Egg vomiting an egg, 2011. Ceramic. 6 x 14.5 x 9 cm
Lola Reboud
The thread of Lola Reboud’s approach, mainly photographic, is the relationship we have with Climats and geography, which focuses on environments and individuals; with a particular look at youth. In these places where she travels, she confronts the collective imagination with research conducted upstream with geographers, volcanologists, oceanographers… Portraits, landscapes, scenes of lives, associated together evoke in a photographic approach related to pictorial concerns.
– Untitled, October 2013 – Hunting (allegory I), December 2016 – Untitled, (Antonia, Stoppia Nova), January 2017
Anne-Lise Seusse
Anne-Lise Seusse observes the world from above, she pinpoints very precisely portions of territories using Google Earth. Curiosity and explorations lead her to a particular type of non-places, on the outskirts of cities, between the forest and the road, in the extension of these spaces in-between that the urbanists called Edge Cities, or edge-cities. Anne-Lise Seusse invests, analyzes and describes with the help of the photographic medium portions of spaces requalified by specific human activities. His method is progressive and leads him to get to know the individuals acting in these places.
– Burnt corn, Franshoekk 2016 photographic and silver print 90x120cm – Biffin, mushroom, 2019, silver photograhy – Biffin, debris continued 2019, silver photograhy
SMITH
Photographer, visual artist, director, SMITH explores the thought and practice of transition, mutation, hybridization, the in-between in his plastic and theoretical work. Transition of gender, state, period; plasticity, atomic and biotechnological metamorphoses, dream work, cosmic walks, transmutations… mark his work and his research for ten years.
1- “Löyly” (2007-2013), series of photographs – book published by Filigranes (2013) https://www.filigranes.com/livre/loyly/. 2 – Spectrographies”, transdisciplinary project: Medium film (59 minutes), series of thermo-photographs, installation (implanted electronic chip). 3 – “C19H28O2 (Agnès), transdisciplinary installation for 6 HD videos, sound piece, sculpture, synthetic testosterone [http://%20youtu.be/OtrQVTaaM5w]http://smith.pictures/work/130/c19h28o2-agnes
Marie Sommer
Marie Sommer’s photographs and videos draw on the history of places and reveal the ambiguity of certain sites and images crossed by time. Freeing herself from a purely documentary work, she observes the production systems of photographic images, and looks at the way in which the photographs are preserved. Thus, if his work consists of important phases of shooting. The result is a research medium, whose images, extracted from the scientific context, can be exhibited.
– Teufelsberg, 2009 Argentic photographs (series) 105 x 105 cm – Ronde de nuit 2016 Video produced in collaboration with Anne-Charlotte Finel, HD video, color, 5’15 ‘in a loop, 2016 – Les ruines circulaire, 2016
Lise Terdjman
Lise Terdjman’s works are conceived from devices that question forms, places, stereotypes, and gender. His work articulates documents and fictions and brings together art history, anthropology and social sciences in a transversal way. She conducts research on how culture builds and conditions our perception. Lise Terdjman wonders about human fragility, fragility that also testifies to a great strength: building cathedrals, building the Tower of Babel, imagining the ark of Noah… Lise Terdjman builds stories, traces the story and reveals through them our strengths and weaknesses as a great builder.
– Claquettes, installation et activation performative de neuf claquettes, 2019 – View of Cours de dessin revisited, FRAC Champage-Ardenne, Reims, 2020, Installation salle 2 – water mirror, ceramic
Victoire Thiéré
Victoire Thierrée takes side roads, weaving a bridge between the field of art and the military world. The artist implements a process of in filtration and then of ex filtration of images and materials from places difficult to access, practices or technological innovations dedicated to the art of war and which cannot, a priori, be disposed of. Victoire Thierrée thus formulates proposals while in contrast, in search of the fragilities that deaf of a space supposedly under control. Victoire Thierrée tirelessly updates the military flaw: the lack of control of a force of which it would no longer be possible, therefore, to ignore the part of inhumanity.
– BIRDS OF PREY, 2018 Colour Digital Video, 12’21’ – Don’t Get Caught in the Dark Series, 2016, 40 x 50 cm each, Digital Photographs, Infrared Light Intensifier (IL) Military Sight, Inkjet Prints on Hahnemule Rag Baryta Paper – DYNAMIC DEMONSTRATIONS (2018) Colour digital video, 7’43’.
Céline Vache-Olivieri
If we find repeatedly the ceramic throughout the work of Céline Vaché-Olivieri, it is first presented as an arrangement of forms and gestures. The thought that runs through and builds this work is not that of a particular medium, it is a plastic thought that plays with relationships between identifiable practices, sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics, objects and found images. Each element retains a relative autonomy while being caught in a bundle of relations, as the islands of an archipelago each have a place, an identity, this one being defined in its relations to the totality. From one exposure to another, certain elements move, the same object can be discovered alone or taken in an arrangement of which no medium, no language, can become the index.
– Fruit in disguise, 2018, peut de banane – Five Hands (details), 2015, glazed stoneware, variable dimensions, in Butter side up, La couleuvre, St-Ouen – mymindislikeaplasticbag #theuncertaintyprinc iple 2020, latex, extract from a variable dimension series – … Like a blasting bag, 2009, latex tein
Florian Viel
Rooted in questions of tropicalism, Florian Viel’s work uses springs of imagery built through the western prism. Between deconstruction of stereotypes and desacralization of art, the artist develops works with a smoothed aesthetic, which evacuate the trace of the artist’s hand and gesture.
– Falling Sun, 2013, Variable Size Fabric Printing – Sunset, 2016, Window, Neon, Gelatin, Drywall, Plant, Switch, Variable Size – How to become a publicist, 2014, photos, pineapple objects, shelf 1. 2. 3.
Malak Zertal
Malak Zertal (graphic designer, artist and illustrator) has a soft, spontaneous and acerbic pencil that is very politicized, through the daily life of her often queer female characters who brilliantly cross patriarchal society. By giving importance to situations that could be completely banal, her drawing celebrates with strength and evidence female empowerment.
– Together Forever Book of 46 pages printed in risography, published by Colorama Print (Berlin) for October 2020 – Fragile , Book of 20 pages printed in risography, published by Colorama Print (Berlin) in 2018. Book Launch at the New York Art Book Fair – Dumb Bitch Juice, 150-page book published by Les Requins Marteaux in the BDCUL collection, scheduled for release in January 2021
Header image: Anne-Lise Seusse, Biffin, Saint-Ouen (series) 2019. Silver photographs made as part of the residency at Les Ateliers Médicis “Regards du Grand Paris” © Anne-Lise Seusse
