Stefane Perraud
dal 11/9/2013 al 30/10/2013
Segnalato da
11/9/2013
Stefane Perraud
De Roussan gallery, Paris
Le Sarcophage de L. pres de M. (en D.). The exhibition invites us to find out a fictional world with an archaeologic and timeless narration. Pursuing his work about light, Perraud let us explore the atmosphere of this mysterious crypt through a collection of objects.
For his first solo exhibition “The Sarcophagus” at galerie de Roussan, Stefane Perraud
summons viewers to follow him on an introspection of a collection of artworks that
have been staged as an archaeological metaphor. Moving through the gallery, visitors
encounter a mysterious space replete with sculpture that act as clues, each calling to
be decoded. This fiction plays with symbols, signs and lights, at once deployed in both
a contemporary and immemorial way.
A cold glimmer, soft and troubling, seems to come from a source that is hard to define.
It is a conducting thread, the vector of a message arising from its own being. The
dramatic power of this force is a common point for the pieces. Amid the documents
and objects, photographs and drawings a partial story is constructed, one that each
person has to complete.
The central piece in the basement is a video installation, a work that provides access
to a space outside of the gallery via a motorised video camera. The camera’s design
is based on model robots used to access sensitive sites, such as nuclear accident
zones, Egyptian pyramids or for exploring the surface of Mars. Thanks to the robot,
participants can control the camera’s motion and thus discover a mysterious space, a
kind of cellar that places the other works in the exhibition in perspective.
Just exhumed from this unknown crypt, from which reality arises in a collision of
different epochs, the various objects in this exploration seem to be frozen in the brief
moment just before their revelation, yet within the same luminous enigma. Behind
a rock and some metal dug up by excavations, is a lump of radioactive material, an
imperishable fire, or the metaphor of an eternal memory that lives on outside of the
bodies and beyond the space.
The present places remain in memory, while its imagined places then merge.
Recollections subjected to degradations and transformations imposed by the
fluctuations of the mind become the object of a meticulous exploration, symbolic and
documented, tangible yet as vaporous as a memory of childhood.
This introspective search is a model that emanates from antiquity and the birth of the
writing, extending to the excavation robotised technologies of contemporary exploration.
It determines a ground in which the paradox is that one neither circumscribes it nor
places it in time. Even if they come from a perfectly intimate field, the clues resound in
collective space. Each one proposes that we not reconsider its history as a complete
set of elements, but instead as sources through which light endures and transforms.
Opening: 12th September 2013
Galerie de Roussan
10 rue Jouye-Rouve 75020 Paris
Opening from Thuesday to saturday from 2am-7pm
and by appointement