Projects
2021-23
Le lieu qui te revêt
Le lieu qui te revêt, oil painting on rice paper, hand sewn, 280 × 176 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, oil painting on rice paper, hand sewn, top left: 101 × 45 cm, bottom left: 102 × 45 cm, center: 270 × 127 cm, right: 207 × 98 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, oil painting on rice paper, hand sewn, left: 240 × 123 cm, right: 197 × 61 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, embroidered color print, 21.5 × 25.5 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on printing, 21.5 × 25.5 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2022
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2022
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2023
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 36.2 × 31.4 cm, 2023
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage on paper, 31 × 22 cm, 2021
Le lieu qui te revêt, collage and pencil on paper, 31 × 22 cm, 2021
Solo exhibition 2021-22
Le lieu qui te revêt, Firm Artlab, Brussels, Belgium
The project Le lieu qui te revêt was developed during the artist residency at Firm Artlab from October 2021 to January 2022 in Brussels, Belgium.
Le lieu qui te revêt is composed of paintings and collages inspired by the Annunciations by Fra Angelico (Italian painter, 1395-1455) and by its analysis by philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman. I extracted a few words and sentences from the analysis that Georges Didi-Huberman carries out in the book Before the image, of the fresco of the Annunciation that Fra Angelico painted in cell three of the San Marco convent in Florence. These words guided me when making decisions about my pictorial choices:
“Mystery. Frontal white. Contemplation surface, a dream screen. Angelico's white, this almost nothing visible. The Annunciation, the announcement. The image of everything that devours us in the evidence of dreams. Exegetical work that the use of a pigment manages to deliver itself. What is in front of becomes all around, and the white that the monk was contemplating perhaps whispers to him: I am the place where you live — the cell itself —, I am the place that contains you. Thus, do you make yourself present to the mystery of the Annunciation, beyond representing it to yourself. The place that covers you.”
Georges Didi-Huberman
The 14th and 15th century Annunciations used a geometric organization of space, the perspective, to create the space where the encounter and dialogue between the angel and Mary take place, as well as to assimilate architecture to the body of Mary who is the place where the Incarnation happens. I appropriate certain elements of Angelico's painting, for example the white color, but I build paintings according to a spatial structure inspired by the Kesa, a clothing worn by Zen Buddhist monks/nuns during meditation, which represents a rice field.
My paintings are made from pieces of rice paper, oil painted. They are large formats, sewn by hand. For the installation, I designed structures for the deployment of the works. These structures create space within the paintings and relate to the place both by their arrangement and by the inclusion of emptiness.
