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Moving humorously and lightly, Virginie Yassef manipulates scale in presenting our everyday life. Her misappropriated commonplace objects play with an effect of distortion that heightens the density of reality. Virginie Yassef transforms instants from life involving play, ritual and work into poetic micro narratives. Filmed in Beijing in China, Fantomes, parachutes, dragons, projectiles consists of 4 short sequences.
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VIRGINIE YASSEF
STE'PHANE VIGNY
Virginie Yassef
Fantomes, Parachutes, Dragons, Projectiles
Moving humorously and lightly from the micro to the macro, Virginie Yassef manipulates scale in presenting our everyday life. Her misappropriated commonplace objects play with an effect of distortion that heightens the density of reality, without ever dramatising it. The artist also makes short videos, and likes documenting ordinary gestures captured unawares in public spaces, and recorded clandestinely.
Filmed in Beijing in China, Fantomes, parachutes, dragons, projectiles consists of four short sequences that are autonomous, yet complementary. Virginie Yassef has no aspirations to be exotic, drawing inspiration from her immediate surroundings to transform instants from life involving play, ritual and work into poetic micro narratives. With regard to her films, she speaks of phantom scripts, fragments of stories that she strings together.
Ste'phane Vigny
Mecanique populaire
Ste'phane Vigny uses great virtuosity in intermingling the Minimalist heritage, the influence of kitsch and commonplace objects to produce works that are anodyne yet subversive. Sunday do-it-yourselfers, aesthetes of cheap and garish decoration or car customisation enthusiasts seem to be the figures who provide the artist with inspiration. Humour and seriousness are the pillars of this practice of hybridization where the objects seem to belong to the classification of the artistically modified objects (AMOs).
For the Palais de Tokyo, Ste'phane Vigny brings together a rabbit hutch, subjected to minimal “tuning", an electric drill transformed into a skipping rope and a pair of trainers reduced to the status of a kitsch trinket. Each work is the product of an unnatural alliance, a sculpture with skewed functionality and paradoxical dynamics.
Image: Fantomes.parachutes.dragons.projectiles, 2004 / e'dition de 3 + 1 E.A., Court. Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
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