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Matières tangibles & récits invisibles
Group exhibition
From September 7 to 21, 2024
With the artists: Giulia Zanvit, Béatrice Bissara, Tiffany Bouelle, Solène Kerlo, Julia A. Etedi, Janique Bourget and Alice Lebourg
The exhibition "Tangible Matter & Invisible Stories" which runs from September 7 to 21 at the Porte B. gallery brings together the works of seven female artists. Julia A. Etedi, Béatrice Bissara, Tiffany Bouelle, Janique Bourget, Solène Kerlo, Alice Lebourg and Giulia Zanvit all have in common the fact that they make matter speak, transcend its physical reality to make it say something other than what it is, to reveal its hidden history, real or imagined.
Solène Kerlo's paintings, with their mineral and earthy palette, reveal in relief elementary forms that tell of her meditative experiences and her journey towards a more intuitive and wild nature. Exploring the great founding myths, the artist questions the relationship of modern man to his roots and his collective unconscious. Her work presents itself as an initiatory journey, a quest for origins.
A quest that is echoed in particular by the work of Béatrice Bissara, who questions the evolution of the relationship that man has with the world. Here again, human perception is part of a broader reflection on the invisible links between nature and individual consciousness. In her series on canvas Horizons, Béatrice Bissara gives a meditative and hypnotic value to the pictorial gesture. She starts from the formal principle of pointillism, as it was used by aborigines, to give form to new interior landscapes.
In Julia A. Etedi's work, this relationship with nature is even more instinctive. Evoking cartographies of vibratory landscapes, her works seek to pictorially translate the invisible movements of nature. Inspired by the seasons and natural cyclical rhythms, the artist positions herself as a witness collecting fragments of these variations to preserve their memory.
This search for pure gesture - as a pictorial transcription of experience - is also found in the abstract canvases of Tiffany Bouelle, who opens the window of her inner world for the first time with the series Seinaru Mori and Half. The artist recounts her introspective journey during her postpartum period and, later, her residence in Japan and the antagonisms linked to her dual culture.
Giulia Zanvit's work focuses on revealing the poetry of the moment, the beauty of the simple gesture, by collecting and recycling materials gleaned from the surrounding nature. For the exhibition, she presents a series of sculptures from her residence on the island of Naxos, such as this "Korè necklace" made of bricks and fishing nets collected on the beach and intended for some giants of mythology.
Finally, Janique Bourget and Alice Lebourg question the material itself, its cycles and its transformations. Combining two materials that are complete opposites - paper and glass - they evoke passage and disappearance. The blown glass forms on the embers of the paper sculpture and prints in passing the traces of its bygone existence, a true meditation on the passing of time and the memory of beautiful things.
Through a varied visual journey, mixing painting, sculpture, installation and drawing, this exhibition invites the visitor to look beyond the surface of the works and their materiality to explore the "invisible stories" they contain. It encourages us to reflect on the way we perceive and interpret the world.
