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Motif

Batardises 2007




MOTIF


Three installation from April to July 2007



FIRST PART : the process
At first my work was the assembly of similar materials : the result of an alternative process of constructivism / deconstructionism Through the time it became more informal : closer to a process of dissociation/ association of ideas , images , logos of contemporary symbols . This process is not desire to create a new image but oriented towards new articulations of these symbols to reveal their double language .


PART TWO : Definition


Function : noun Etymology: French, motive, motif, from Middle French --
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Motif (art)) For other uses, see Motive.
In art, a motif is a repeated idea, pattern, image, or theme. Paisley designs are referred to as motifs. Many designs in mosques in Islam culture are motifs, especially those of flowers. Two major Roman motifs are egg in tongue and ball and reel.
Motifs may have iconographic significance within a work of art. In the spatial design of the 'visual art' of Architecture, a universal motif may be opined due to the pancultural commonality of the liminal, endemic portal guardian; nominally: Gargoyle, Green Man, Gorgon, Gana, Yalli, Face Of Glory or Kirtimukha; etc.

PART THREE : the installations


The MOTIF = body shape laid on the floor



First part : Writing MOTIF

showed during the event ARTPAGE (OCTON 34800 Hrault) the 26 Th. au 29th of April 2007







Description


place : OCTON' Village des arts , At the entrance an interactive light - box piece with three repetitive photos of the Nagasaki ' bomb with a switch floor , when you press on it : the sentence " JUST DO IT " appears in red with the sound track of the H bomb . The thematic is announced by lined up tomatoes saying MOTIF. The MOTIFS : women - bags in waxed colored cloth laid on a fake lawn and filled up with of sand are showing three different directions .













1) Upon a table covered with a kitchen red and white waxed cloth are piled up in a pyramid opened books where the shape of the MOTIF was cut out , making the pyramid more unstable . Groups of tomatoes are lined up along the table and invite you to throw them to put the pyramid down like in a carnival





2) Behind veiled curtains on which some MOTIFS ( cut - out from the books ) were pinned , and on a table recovered with a thick red cloth , two women- bags are laid . In a round make- up mirror half recovered with red wedding- veil , you can look at the RESNAIS' movie : " HIROSHIMA , MON AMOUR " , and so hear the Marguerite DURAS ' roman text in a loop.






3) A red cloth ( made of two different materials : one thick and opaque as a curtain and the other fragile and transparent as a veil sewn together let showing the MOTIF shape) invite you to look up and see hundred of cut- out Motif- paper' shapes that fine nets (from bags of food streched out) held back.





2) Second part :
"MOTIF TRIP"

Taking place during the “Printemps des Bouses “' week- end from the 26th to the 29th of May 2007 OCTON (34 800 Hérault)
Description : place ; Studio' door at the" village des arts " Octon : small posters announce the closed season : "MOTIF : TRIP "

3) Third part
"MOTIF CIRE ET ENTOILE"

Taking place in the “Batardises" ' place name of the “ Batardière” at Landeronde in Vendée . With the "Figure'" association, this unique event welcome height female artist (the woman is her biannual thematic ) during the month of June and July 1 2007.







Description :

It is a " Motif chase" starting outside at he entrance of the Batardises' place name and different signs put you on the track, it could be :
1) women- bags ( the MOTIf shape ) filled with sand pointing to different directions ,
2) Road- signs where one Motif ( or more) is added on it ,
3) A white neon -sign saying Dieu ( God ) ,
4) PArtificial flowers crowns shaped as the word BONHEUR ( happiness) , then when you are coming into a gallery room : women- bags point to a blinking orange neon sign saying : MOTIF.











4) OPTIONAL PART :



LA ROCHE - SUR - YON '(85) Galleries Lafayette Show window

Description

Place: Center down town of " La Roche- sur - Yon Show window 11 meters long , three hight , one meter and half wide . On the black painted walls, the cut out motif ( trim size) in a waxed colored kitchen table cloth, is repeated over and over as a wallpaper . A red neon showing a statistic line up is installed in the middle of the wall , another neon sign saying : BYE- BYE is hanging from the celling at the extreme right of the window : is not on is all wrapped with surgical tape . On the floor are lined up four women- bags laid on pieces of fake lawn grass ( three of them are square the last one is shaped as the MOTIF ) discontinued yellow line crosses them .







These installations play and elude the space- time , making it as exponential of the present time . I conceived it as chase with multiple receptacles decline with my life , the space and the everyone perception.






MOTIF



APRIL-JULY 2007
Exposition at "la Batardière" 85150 until 31 - 07- 2007, 08.77.66.42.40 and 06.74.22.71.91



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