White rabbit
Digital photography. Painted steel plates. Wood sculptures on steel. 2020.
Poster: 100x60 cm
Steel plates: 35 x30 cm
Sculptures: 40x40x35 cm
The work is an invitation to see beyond the illusion of reality. The door opens and lets the viewer voluntarily go beyond the obvious and experience the hidden.
"Initially invited to intervene outside the villa La Garenne Lemot (Clisson) at the beginning of March 2020, she had to bring in the park two small minimalist sculptures taking up the schematic design of the half-opening of a door. As she wandered around, the artist planned to photograph them in an open position on the vegetation, the ornaments or the surrounding landscape. The title White Rabbit refers as much to the pre-history of la Garenne Lemot, a hunting reserve, as to the character of Lewis Carroll, the White Rabbit leading Alice to another dimension, an imaginary country. Sanitary conditions, linked to the spread of Covid-19 from March 2020, decided otherwise. It was in Tuscany that the artist posed his sculptures, importing then fragmentary views of landscapes and architectures, such as those that inspired François-Frédéric Lemot for the creation of his domain and the reconstruction of Clisson, devastated by the wars. of Vendée, a fantasized, pictorial Italy." ( Jean-Michel Jagot, for the exhibition "Comme de longs Echos", la Garenne Lemot. April-October 2021, with the support of Département de Loire Atlantique).
