I N S T A L L A T I O N S
P A Y S A G E S T A C T I L E S, 2021
The show presents a sensorial approach to the notion of landscapes, in their physical and mental dimensions, by creating common spaces of visual and audible expressions, creating spaces of experiences, beyond visual restrictions. Entirely tactile, this exhibition brings together five artists, who invite us to touch, listen, and see different works that all are distinctive proposals of landscapes to experience.
Through printmaking, ceramics, textiles, interactive installations and mixed media, the artists seek to summon our senses, imagination and emotions, in order to question what a landscape is, beyond traditional limits of its meaning. The exhibition invites us to take the visual landscape out of its visible dimension, to consider it through the richness of its material and immaterial aspects, and thus proposes to reconsider our usual ways of perceiving the world in order to experiment with new ones.
The show presents a sensorial approach to the notion of landscapes, in their physical and mental dimensions, by creating common spaces of visual and audible expressions, creating spaces of experiences, beyond visual restrictions. Entirely tactile, this exhibition brings together five artists, who invite us to touch, listen, and see different works that all are distinctive proposals of landscapes to experience.
Through printmaking, ceramics, textiles, interactive installations and mixed media, the artists seek to summon our senses, imagination and emotions, in order to question what a landscape is, beyond traditional limits of its meaning. The exhibition invites us to take the visual landscape out of its visible dimension, to consider it through the richness of its material and immaterial aspects, and thus proposes to reconsider our usual ways of perceiving the world in order to experiment with new ones.
E O T E C H N I C S E N S O R I U M, 2017
This installation represents my tears, everyone’s tears--each individual and personal. Like the smile or the laugh, tears are universal, an expression of deep, often unspeakable, overflowing emotions. Though merely tiny drops of water, tears can sway a multitude. Tears can be cathartic, depleting, thrilling or isolating. As R.L. Fishers writes, “It’s as though each one of our tears carries a microcosm of the collective human experience, like one drop of an ocean.” This thought encapsulated the 2017 installation at Century House Historical Society. For this installation, and for future ones, the work needs to be over water. The site was obvious from the moment I first came upon it: Tears dropping into water, returning to their calm source.
This installation presents my return to 3D art after devoting my practice to Tears of Sorrow. For this project, I adopted an entirely new to a new medium, glass: the only material that could adequately convey the range of feelings in near identical shapes. It was both scary and exciting to explore a new technique, using borosilicate glass and a gas flame that exceeds 2000 degrees. Each tear is similarly shaped, yet unique. I spent hours upon hours fabricating the tears at Urban Glass in Brooklyn under the guidance of the gifted Amy Lemaire.
This installation represents my tears, everyone’s tears--each individual and personal. Like the smile or the laugh, tears are universal, an expression of deep, often unspeakable, overflowing emotions. Though merely tiny drops of water, tears can sway a multitude. Tears can be cathartic, depleting, thrilling or isolating. As R.L. Fishers writes, “It’s as though each one of our tears carries a microcosm of the collective human experience, like one drop of an ocean.” This thought encapsulated the 2017 installation at Century House Historical Society. For this installation, and for future ones, the work needs to be over water. The site was obvious from the moment I first came upon it: Tears dropping into water, returning to their calm source.
This installation presents my return to 3D art after devoting my practice to Tears of Sorrow. For this project, I adopted an entirely new to a new medium, glass: the only material that could adequately convey the range of feelings in near identical shapes. It was both scary and exciting to explore a new technique, using borosilicate glass and a gas flame that exceeds 2000 degrees. Each tear is similarly shaped, yet unique. I spent hours upon hours fabricating the tears at Urban Glass in Brooklyn under the guidance of the gifted Amy Lemaire.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince