Lignes de vie ²⁰¹⁹

Suspended metal wire sculpture presented as part of a solo exhibition The shadows crazy, at Création57, in Resonance of the Biennale de Lyon 2019.

Apparently this object is motionless but the fibers which constitute it are like vibrating eyelashes which quiver on an inclined plane, they make this place breathe. The inclined image makes this sculpture a split world, a dialogue with the architecture and with itself, but it is not a question of duplication or repetition because its projections are random and unpredictable. These shadows are a moving morphology and give flesh to this skeleton, they give it a thickness, a sound.
This sculpture/image slows down time and our bodies, it is “the essence of things”. These are the words of Peter Handke about the trip he made in 1971 between Aix-en-Provence and Le Tholonet to find the lights of Cézanne. What he says about Cézanne's umbrella pine shadow play reminds me of Christelle Balbinot's sculptures, even if there is no intention of filiation. Peter Handke invites us to share his experience of writing through the experience of walking, and what makes sense is the maturation of sensations, what he calls no stans (the moment of eternity).
The metallic lines that we observe here plunge our gaze into the sensation of a landscape that is both dry and aquatic, dilated and contracted, like a long braided tongue that seems to float above itself and which disappears into itself. even. This slow work of sewing draws and gives body, and this body resists our own displacements: it is there that the grain of madness of this approach is born, it is there that the immeasurable is born.

Herve Bacquet, 2019.
Peter Handke, The lesson of Sainte-Victoire, Folio, p.25