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OPEN STUDIO: ÉLÉONORE FALSE

Wednesday 30 August 2017 - 6.30PM


The CAC – la synagogue de Delme invites you to the open studio of the artist Éléonore False on Wednesday 30th August at 6.30 pm at 10b rue des cigognes, Lindre-Basse.

"In the work of Eléonore False, the image is the point of departure. Observed, extracted, classified. Divided, enlarged, discoloured, superposed, juxtaposed, folded, reversed, inverted. Observed, forgotten, rediscovered. Through a range of gestures, she offers the image the possibility of an alternate existence, freeing it from its original, historical and symbolic context. She embraces its materiality, patterns, frames and colours. Inevitably, certain images insist on manifesting themselves in memory, as if demanding to be freed from their flatness—a reminder of their imago/imagines root, ancient funerary masks allowing the deceased to assert their presence during processions through the wax imprint of their faces.

Collected images of rare mushrooms on glossy paper. With the help of a glass blower these images are reinterpreted, without seeking to copy them or produce functional objects. Traditional craft techniques such as weaving, basketry, and raku are chosen by the artist for their expressive potential and inspire her to search out specific types of images. Heating, blowing, turning, blowing, turning, chiselling, sandblasting. This glassmaking expertise is evocative of organic aesthetics: the offshoots and strange curves of russulas, pezizas, or tremellas. While the analogy between the body and nature is clear, the form produced is an isolated one, torn from its mnemonic pedestal, re-opened." Marie Bechetoille

 

The glasswork pieces were produced with the support of CIAV - Centre International d'Art Verrier de Meisenthal.

The artist residency programme is organised by the CAC - la synagogue de Delme in collaboration with the Lorraine Regional Natural Park and the Commune of Lindre-Basse.