Dimensions: approximately 800cm x 600cm
Views of Marie-Noëlle Deverre's installation for the exhibition Metamorphoses and Overflows at Maison des Arts Solange-Baudoux, Evreux, 2021
Solo exhibition in duet with the visual artist Frédérique Fleury.
Metamorphoses and Overflows
[…] To walk through an installation by Marie-Noëlle Deverre is to be clearly invited as a variable in an equation.
"Thus by a slow dreamy stroll we could become the work we are looking at", she tells us. A utopian and anachronistic space is born from our encounter with the installation which opens up to all depths, in all directions.
We discover there woven envelopes of an emerging metamorphosis, moults, caskets of presences of absence, "portable" sculptures to delight oneself by telling stories, bringing back childhood fantasies and their refrains. .
“Disturbingly strange” objects call up distances, in time or space, where everything is always “something else”.
All these forms conceal while appearing. They took their independence and somehow became wild.
“Know that I am hiding something from you” 1
as you see me, I am in the process of … erotic glimpses to intensify our presence in the world, push us ahead of ourselves.
Marie-Noëlle Deverre produces her linocuts with this same fluidity. Deconstructed into fragments of an invisible whole, they “play with their missing parts” to become an evolving installation, like the one entitled Leftovers of the day. Poetry is born from this attention to leftovers, to scraps:
“… is it not enough for that to elaborate the defect, to give form to the remainder, to make of the “bruised remainder” an authentic constructed remainder? 2
The installation is remodeled at each new location, but leaving it free to go against the current towards its mysterious origin, the formal moment of all metamorphoses.
X-rayed like a human body, a lace adorning a corner of a handkerchief is reproduced in these engravings, then fragmented within tides of overflowing colors which merge the planes and, in a baroque and insolent joy, offer us a direct contact with the work. . The unpredictable creates the event. Here again, the beautiful is produced by "the part of the event that its accomplishment cannot achieve" 3
This little corner of a handkerchief, emerging from the engraving, is invisible, like “the shadow of an absent tree” 4, it is the fruit of encounters during a residency. His art, moreover, is overwhelmed by these inaugural encounters. In the same spirit, performances flow naturally from this work, open and radiating “truths for our feet, which can be danced”. 5
1- Roland Barthes, Fragments of a loving discourse
2- Georges Didi-Huberman, What we see, what concerns us
3 – Maurice Blanchot, Literary space
4 – Bernard Noël, Half of the gesture
5 – Friedrich Nietzsche
Text by author Christian Zimmermann about Marie-Noëlle Deverre's installation in this exhibition.
Photos © Vincent Connétable
Video extract on the exhibition:
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