C IS THE STORY OF A MEETING PLASTIC ...
Toulouse 2007, Jeanne Susplugas this Ordinary Landscapes, the gallery's art center Mirail (CIAM) ...
When the invisible art photography, space is given to the intangible magic of immanence
That experience these visions of a second Mother Earth! That survive the viewer's mind these views belong to an otherwise unknown, without special title!
Under the guise of ordinary landscapes, lies the promise of a non-original place and purifier. These worlds are engaged to us, trembling simplicity, behind plexiglass windows that seem to try to protect some quelqueun thing or perhaps a spectator whose gaze is too insistent, could deprive them of their virginity, and damage to their fullness.
Belonging to the intimate life of everyday life, these works of art have their modesty.
These objects that photography transformed into a shimmering blur fantasy proliferators have nothing in their public existence of remarkable but when the artist catches and then bare men equally amazed that intrigued begin to observe them. Yet nobody guessed that these images are rich in suggestions, halfway between reality and fiction, draw their energy from objects as vile as drugs. The artist, using the macro, it would perform miracles?
By distorting the way the pharmaceutical components, these modern drugs, it corroborates the view of Kant: "Art is not a representation of a beautiful thing but the beautiful representation a thing. " It seems undeniable that a table denouncing the violence of war can be beauty in as representation, it is the same for a shot of drugs.
thinking in mind that access to an objective reality usual, the approximation of the extreme detail that gives life to last an unsuspected and unimaginable.
Undoubtedly this may be a therapy to prescribe in the event of a serious disease where the days seemed punctuated by the absorption of tablets, it is necessary to better fight face to distance to the suffering and face the pain suffered.
Susplugas With Jeanne, the intelligence of vision reaches its climax. And thanks to the intervention minimalist music of Arvo Pärt, the viewer mesmerized resolutely extends her visit as if unconsciously, inhibiting any idea of temporality, this exhibition he inoculated the taste of eternity. To the sound of three notes, echo ephemeral and fragile three units: three drops of water, illusions of three emerging forces alive.
the lookout of silence, music of Estonian composer remains a major appeasement running out of time, a ritual obstinate against all reason and cherished a deep humility, it offers the singular impression anyone gets to listen to be saved. The artist talks about his quest: "I want to reach for this: time and non-time are inextricably linked. This instant and eternity are struggling within us. And this explains all of our contradictions. "
Snapshot, the effect is ultimately disturbing: how do we admire what the substance has the power to heal but also to destroy ourselves? We
helping to "establish a new common world of visual perception" (Kepes, 1946), the photograph clearly shows us here, and it is indeed therein lies the disturbing element, a truth. Indeed, art, prior to the appearance of side feeds a contiguous relationship with the truth that is made real only appearing in concrete forms and history.
Hegel himself reminds us: "Remember that all gasoline, all truth, not to remain pure abstraction, must appear .
So here is the Invisible ....
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Dear Jane, how mature you draft your works? What are your views? Could you tell me about your travels?
Do you allow to influence events your work? Is there ever a person by his story upsets you enough to change your work and direction of your steps?
In recent years I have been fortunate to travel extensively for exhibitions, productions of plays, meetings. I feed on those experiences and they influence my work more or less directly. They also bring a dimension more "universal" and the idea that a series begins in Paris and continues in Tokyo or New York I am very interested. The photo series " Addicted particular has built up over the years and the various conversations I have had worldwide. The procedure is simple, a character, a drug. From the first frame, the tension produced by these people offering to target, open mouth, a pill on the tongue, surprised me because the order of the intimate. This simple device proved to be highly complex. Some also have refused, others were able to see some kind of action "liberating" reassuring, violent ...
My interest and my questions about addiction, the pharmacopoeia of enriching experiences. The contact with the medical community, drug-taking experiences are special and I hope you feel that complexity in this body of images.
Sometimes the reflection of a researcher, a physician, a writer can synthesize a question and I can use it as a fulcrum, this is the case of I met Marie Darrieussecq. Reading "truism" I was deeply marked and after each of his books, I told myself that I would work with her, compare our experience, a sound piece ("Iatrogenic") has finally crystallized these exchanges and I like the idea that neither one nor the other could not carry this project individually. Moreover, it was of great generosity by giving me his personal experience of the disease. Spokesperson "girls distilbene" - those girls whose mothers were treated by the notorious drug that caused deformities of the uterus in their children, Marie Darrieussecq speaks of the malformation, the "monstrosity" of the loss and pain.
I also work for some time from a character Lurnar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, he summarizes some of my research fields: kids under sedation, hallucinations and apparitions, fantastic mystery, considerations in Xanax in the world today ...
What music would you choose if you had to accompany your drawings of sound elements?
Could this minimalist music like exposure Ordinary Landscapes or not necessarily?
As for music, in my present work, is particularly attached to the video, so I can avail myself of this sound as a structural element of an exhibition . The video sound resonates throughout the space and enriches the reading of other parts. I can then design a set of photos or drawings in knowing in advance that this music will be a sort of "glue" for all.
The exhibition I am presenting right now in New York (Florence Lynch gallery) is clearly based on this principle. Photographs, drawings, installation, coexist with a film "Plan Iodine," done in collaboration with artist Alain Declercq - as a video projection. Music, Eddie Ladoire, kind of scary and minimal distortion, is used as a guideline for the entire exhibition on the trafficking of drugs from the small deal discreet corner of the street to traffic mega import-export ("Speedy Deal" Series of "Salewomen). Of mass destruction in the way of industry luxury ("Mass Destruction"). It also dealt with the potential traffic video "iodine map" which I just mentioned. In France, every five years, the pharmacy distributes to all the armies of France two pharmacies regulatory board with a limited number of tablets of potassium iodide (which is set on the thyroid iodine) vital remedy in case of trouble Nuclear. In case of accident or attack, the more humanistic came rushing to rescue his pharmacy at the earliest, the most devious might well say that a lucrative business comes to him and it's time to this precious commodity safe place ...
To return to sound and music ... they are sometimes specifically designed for installation as is the case for example of the installation "Hermes", where light box and are surrounded by white powder gnashing of prison doors and cheerful Mexican singers extolling the benefits of illicit substances.
Jeanne, you who work in different media, exploring the video, drawing, photography, text (titles and Iatrogenic part), do you think there is a art that outweighs the others by its effectiveness? Which carrier do you take freely your greatest pleasure?
I have a way of working medium that does not involve a priori, the choice is made according to a necessity imposed by a reflection . I switch from video to photography, the intimacy of a gigantic drawing of a facility.
For example, when I became interested in fake medicines traffic, the complexity and danger of the millions of prescription medicines wild (or very well organized!) markets in the Third World or on specialized websites, a wide field of investigation opened in me. I immersed myself in a daily research - that of the workshop rather introspective and quiet that has spawned numerous drawings, sketches ... but also more dramatic proposals as "Mass Destruction" where a huge steamroller crushes thousands tablets in the manner of destruction of counterfeits in the luxury industry.
I can afford to explore these different aspects because my fields of action are diverse: from gallery to public spaces ...
I take pleasure in all these areas because I change at will!
Do you think art covers disciplines where there is nothing left to learn? I think the painting for example. What do you think of its relevance today? When you Michele Robecchi asked in an interview "how did you come to art? "You say" I started very young to paint and draw. "
course I have a relatively unusual because I'm basically the theory. I did a PhD in art history and if the research I was very rich, this has not necessarily helped to take a plastic work independently!
Passage through a "traditional" practice of painting and drawing was certainly natural for me. But I easily found a plastic singularity through photography, my first experiences in this area seemed more relevant.
art, in your opinion, should it be the bearer of a single message is the peddler of fixed answers to questions of humanity, or should it by all means try multiply the angles of a company pressed forward to alert for better prevention?
I do not work "preachy", I do not give a unilateral interpretation and I have no opinion on static subjects I discuss, approaches are changing as well as interpretations. I like my work raises various comments and even contradictory ... A video like "Konstantin", for example, where we see a child swallowed a large quantity of drugs, can cause deep unease as a form of optimism. The experience of the viewer affects the reading and it is for me a source of enrichment. Some see it as a form of suicide, others a way to survive ... You can not really know if this is a true story or a complete fiction.
Installation "home sick" plays on the same principle. A room is covered floor to ceiling of thousands of boxes of medicines. Each box tells a story and every visitor has a different interpretation according to his own experience of illness and death. It is as if each box of each mirror was sore.
Can we, on your drawings, will speak with plastic non-finito? I personally read real silent cries born to a balanced dialogue between the voids and spaces invested by the pencil.
The unfinished look of my drawings is very important to me, most of the time they have their source in newspapers, magazines. I is a basic iconographic rather large and I operate mixes, confrontations, sometimes in stark contrast to the original document. These "divisions" of journals are both exciting and create a sort of "restarting" of reactivation which seems closed and final, because published.
The idea that one day you could change the subject did she crossed my mind?
I do not feel like a single topic. The drugs appear to be a prominent topic but by extension, I discuss various things such as addiction, obsessions, the notion of space, confinement, loneliness ...
Installation "Peeping Tom's house "For example, inspired dollhouse and plays on the idea of voyeurism. Reduced to a simple expression, it is pierced with holes through which the viewer can see different views, attitudes and domestic rituals at the limit of absurdity.
If he was a land more easily practicable, would you make space, the universe, its stars a new place of artistic and philosophical explorations?
(This question is somewhat often when you surprise ... I'm facing your works appear like a lunar images during mental or extra-terrestrials, and if it is not representational is the conscience of the infinitely large, which leaves me more.)
I think you allude here to the series "Ordinary landscapes". It's a very contemplative and melancholy series and opens on enigmatic and infinite universe.
It is a text that evokes the same ambivalence as which reflected both the stroke in faces and men that you draw in people that you photograph ... I let you discover ...
I'm nobody
I came suddenly, today, in a sense and just absurd. I realized in a flash, I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning shone, where I thought it was a town stretched a desert plain, and light loss that showed me to myself not revealed to me no air extending above. I was robbed of the power of being before the world was. If I was forced to reincarnate me, it was not myself, not that I am, I reincarnated.
I am on the outskirts of a city that does not exist, prolix commentary of a book that no one has ever written. I am nobody, nobody. I am the character in a novel that remains to be written, and I'm floating, air, without being dispersed among the dreams of a being that has failed me off.
I think, I keep thinking, but my thought contains no arguments, does not contain my emotion with emotion. I fall without end, the bottom of the door at all up there, through infinite space in a fall that does not follow any direction, infinite and multiple empty. My soul is a maelstrom of black, swirling around the vast empty vertigo, motion of a boundless ocean, around a hole in nothing, and in all these waters, which are much more than a whirl of water, all swimming Images of what I saw and heard in the world - parade of houses, faces, books, boxes, scraps of music and syllables scattered in a whirlwind disaster and endless.
And I think what is really me, I am the center of it all, a center that does not exist, except by a geometry of the abyss, I am that nothing around which this movement spins, with no other purpose than to spin, and no existence by itself, if not for the reason that every circle has a center. I think what is really me, I am the pit walls, the center of everything with nothing around it. (...)
think being able to know! Feel able to know!
Fernando Pessoa
What do you think?
It is a matter of perception shifted, feeling outside the norm and it reminds me of many experiences that I could do as a child with a microscope my parents! A world turned out ... I loved the idea that any plant, powder, put under the lens showing a fantasy world, extraordinary and incomprehensible. Somehow I still extend this experience today through my work on the macro. This technique opens an infinite universe and causes unusual readings.
Discovering the photographic series "What Is It Makes today's celebrity so different, so appealing? "One can not help thinking about the famous collage" Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, so Appealing? "By Richard Hamilton. In a sense, if the content of the images conveyed by the Pop Art draws upon the everyday, inducing Thinking and cultural transformations, it reflects Jeanne also the realities of our time.
While both fascination and denunciation, his works leave us on our end: what's going to happen next? What will the outcome: life or death? What awaits sentencing each child she presents?
Children dumb photos collide children viewers of his shows. How does she account for the ills without words?
If the child of an imperfect garden Humanity is polluted one day have to wear a gas mask, as Baby Boy : we can no longer speak of an accident as it is we who have caused his own death.
The innocence of the line combined with a vibrant retail insight provokes alarm from the interior of the "must do something, but what?
What does the artist of the spectators who come to see his works? What is she waiting for men in their relations with medication? are issues that will be an actual meeting face to face, probably in his hometown ...
Thank you Jeanne for your thoughts and your deep concern needed.
Anais Delmas in Ponytail Magazine