À fleur de paume — Un regard sur la miniature dans l'art contemporain [A look at miniature in contemporary art]
Group show curated by Thomas Fort With works by Sylvie Auvray, Sosthène Baran, Damien Cadio, Marion Chaillou, Ali Cherri, Giulietta Cogotti, Jérémie Cosimi, Lélia Demoisy, Nicolas Dhervillers, Alice Gauthier, Jean Gfeller, Majd Abdel Hamid, Oscar Lefebvre, Amandine Maas, Annette Messager, Zélie Nguyen, Lucile Piketty, Mircea Suciu, Rosa Maria Unda Souki, Thomas Tronel-Gauthier and Wang Suo Yuan.
Read moreSeries : Thomas Houseago, Mircea Suciu, Nicolas Daubanes
At Dilecta, art publishing projects are carried out as an extension of books, with the idea of the enjoyment of cultivating ways of printing, the forms of the multiple and, of course, the meaning given to representation, which changes from piece to piece. The three artists invited to take part in this exhibition cycle - Nicolas Daubanes, Thomas Houseago and Mircea Suciu - each present extremely different works, but they all come together through the questions raised by the creation of a “series”.
Read moreParadis artificiels with Ellande Jaureguiberry and Mathilde Lestiboudois
The exhibition "Paradis artificiels" (artificial paradises) puts in dialogue, in a new way, the paintings of Mathilde Lestiboudois and the drawings and sculptures of Ellande Jaureguiberry, inviting us to plunge into phantasmagorical spaces, favorable to the deployment of conflicting feelings. We are invited to metaphorically cross uncertain zones, oscillating between the theater stage and the votive altar, between the built and its ornament. Of the same delicacy in the gesture that shaped them; of an identical will of precision while granting an importance to the qualities of the material; the works of these two artists activate a dance of the glance, sometimes caught by the effects of depth and the details, sometimes sliding on the smooth or powdery surfaces covering the support. They lodge us in a discomfort, a productive doubt by which the imaginary as well as the memory are awakened. Thereby, the familiar ricochets on the unknown, the real intertwines with the fiction.
Read moreValérie Sonnier : Ma maison me regarde et ne me connaît plus
Valérie Sonnier's works depict an universe defined by the notions of presence and absence, whose nostalgic architectures are punctuated by apparitions. Each project is expressed through three media: film, photography and drawing. Valérie Sonnier is more specifically interested in the architecture of the places she portrays with precision. This setting, a theatre of spirits and lives that she tries to capture and immortalise, is drawn with graphite, coloured pencil and wax on the pages of old school or account books, filmed with a Super 8 camera and photographed in silver or colour, ghostly traces that constantly transpose us into a space of time that is past, as if crystallised.
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