SERIES, Act 3 : Nicolas Daubanes, Tumulte

‘‘At Dilecta, art publishing projects are carried out, as an extension of books, with the idea of the pleasure 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 series of exhibitions -Nicolas Daubanes, Thomas Houseago and Mircea Suciu- each present extremely different works, but all come together through the questions raised by the production of a ‘series’.

Nicolas Daubanes presents a drawing that becomes a multiple. He first chose the pattern of a forest in the Vercors, a place of memory inhabited by high trees with contrasted hues, a theater of violent historical scenes. This drawing was made using a technique he’s familiar with: ‘I start by applying a stencil made out of vinyl on a glass surface, then I sand a piece of iron using a grinding machine. The metal is welded by the burning sparks into the stencil’s gaps, creating the pattern. This technique that I put together is made from tinkering mistakes. Each piece is unique.’ For this project, Nicolas Daubanes prepared fifteen stencils and added on each of them a sentence taken from readings that fuel his work: ‘These words are like a dialogue that could have been pronounced in this forest.’ A new way for him to reflect on, and divert from, the practice of multiples.’’

Extract from the texte by Anaël Pigeat