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Art Orienté Objet, Les Tambours apotropaïques ou la machine à conjurer la fin du monde, 1994-2018., 2018 Matériaux mixtes : tambours de bois, tissus, broderie, dispositif lumineux Courtesy galerie Les filles du calvaire
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Art Orienté Objet, Andachtsraum, 2014 Installation sonore, néons, œufs d’autruche, os, son Courtesy galerie Les filles du calvaire — Photo: Aurélien Mole
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Art Orienté Objet, Tombée dans le Dissumba (ou Le lit des Visions), 2013 Métal, néon, verre (verre soufflé, verre étiré, verre froid), textile Courtesy galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition
Art Orienté Objet
4 May 2018 – 16 Jun 2018
Event times
Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6:30 PM
Address
- 17 rue des Filles-du-Calvaire
- Paris
Île-de-France - 75003
- France
About
Galerie les filles du calvaire present the first exhibition of the duo Art Orienté Objet at the gallery. Since 1991, Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Laval’s artistic work has been built on a careful and passionate observation of the living things. They appeal to very different sciences like ecology, biology, ethnography or ethology, and interrogate the changing relationship that human and non-human beings have with an increasingly science-and-technology- overrun environment.
They defend an art of immersion both for artists-researchers and spectators and offer ever-renewed scenic environments. So then, they develop an art of ground that build a pluralist form (installations, videos, photographs, objects…) from a vital or scientific experimentation.
The exhibition Art Orienté Objet brings together a series of recent, multiform works (installations, sculptures and photographs). The duo has imagined an initiatory route where ecological concerns and Shamanic visions meet to question the multiple confrontations between mythical thoughts and technological realities. Deeply politically engaged, the artists believe in a possible recovery and thus they consider the exhibition as a repairing space, a place where they can give substance to the complex relationships between man, animal and nature. The great German art historian Aby Warburg, father of Kulturwissenschaft and inspirer of iconography, is called here as a tutelary figure for the various prophetic visions arising in his book « Serpent Ritual ».
Based on a journey that he made when he was a very young man to the end of a space crisscrossed by the railroad, Warburg compares Hopi culture with one still possible expression of a contemplation space (Andachtsraum) where the link between myth and nature isn’t severed. This space is essential for him to construct a space for thought (Denksraum) and cure his time as well as his own anxiety in front of a terrible feeling : age of electricity and telecommunications can gradually change physical space until destroy it.
