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The Zeer Module, an expanded graphic design that is the material and matrix of the work of Medhi Cibille, a plastic artist from the urban art scene, carries a frenzy that takes on a particular dimension in this period when we are taking great strides to measure the uncontrollable forward momentum that was leading us.
At a time when our lives were put on hold, Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha was in Guyane conducting research on the tattoos practiced with the juice of a fruit in the ancestral American culture. The return was a confrontation with this brutal halt in the course of the world. The artist returned to Toulouse, where he now lives, and found his studio on the Pyrenean plateau.
The questions that Youssef Boubekeur explores through his series of drawings that subvert the divisions between Man and Animal to trace behavioral analogies and remind us that the path from savagery to civilization is not always linear find a singular resonance in this troubled period that humanity is going through. In a certain sense, the individual experiences the anguish of captivity, and the confrontation between his animal and civilized parts takes on an unprecedented dimension.
Our frozen lives, brutally brought to a standstill, are like a state of paralysis for Emmanuelle Rybojad, an artist who vibrates and is intensely present in the world. To stay away from the incessant anxiety-inducing flow is a salutary reflex when hyper-sensitivity deprives one of armor. Yet, Emmanuelle Rybojad soon finds her lucidity. Lucidity, that wound closest to the sun, the poet wrote.
Sacha Haillote is an iconoclastic plastic artist who explores, with the energy that characterizes her, the infinite possibilities offered by matter, wherever it comes from. Colors, textures, volumes: the artist composes, combines, combines, superimposes, transforms, with extraordinary creative jubilation, in the spirit of arte povera. Every material deserves to be sublimated: natural elements, fragments of objects destined for waste, inspire the poetic movement of the work.
After his achievements in the world of urban art, L’Outsider turned his work towards typographic abstraction. In the studio, he preserved graffiti as a dazzling and compulsive creative gesture, amplifying the possibilities of a letter aesthetic, which remains the matrix of the work.
Today, it is a rural Brittany town where he has settled for a few years that forms the backdrop to this suspenseful situation that confronts him with an unexplored temporal dimension. The Outsider sends us a photograph of his studio in the outbuildings of the farmhouse where he lives, which has become the shelter for his artistic harvest.
Steph Cop sculpts fallen trees that he finds in his forest in the Morvan region, where he has been living for several years. His work brings to life the vital force of the tree, embodied in the various figures of A.R.O. Art extends the life cycle by integrating itself into the ecosystem. Today, surrounded by the trees, the artist navigates these troubled times. It is in the oxygen of the first spring leaves, distilled by the gentle breeze, that Steph Cop draws energy for renewal. CoVid has taken its toll on him. The trees take care of him, the artist who preserves their destiny by sublimating them.
