O
{ Open Nannan Surgery }
In situ installation — 2019
at La Manufacture, a collective exhibition curated by Mylène Emica
As part oƒ the third edition oƒ La Manufacture* during the 48th Fort-de-France Festival, I was invited to create an installation within La Rotonde — once the operating room of the military hospital, today part of the Aimé Césaire Cultural Park. In resonance with the theme oƒ cenesthesia**, I chose to explore the deep, visceral, intimate, and collective sensation oƒ ongoing confusion and sideration in a post-traumatic context, through O {Opération à Nannan Ouvert / Open Nannan*** Surgery}.
〜In connection with O, the first solo exhibition below
By what~whom, how and why are we linked? Do these links vivify or petrify us?
Bathed in deep blue light, O invites us to move within~around a cosmic aquatic sky in motion, projected onto the ground. Nestled in its hollow lies a bleached brain coral — torn ƒrom its environment, lifeless — crowned with sacred, shimmering crests. Above this stranded sky, emerging ƒrom an unknown source, a sprawling proliferation oƒ suspended links — lianas intertwined willingly or by force — seems to reach toward the center-ground, while an invisible creature with a conch-like voice occasionally moans.
In an upside-down world, suspended between aporetic oblivion and looping memories, I wanted to explore the anatomy oƒ our relations with:in ourselves and our surroundings, in an alienated~alienating world.
Immersed in a blurred and diffused sensation oƒ blue, cold, abysmal sideration, our cosmorganic connection gradually tangles and frays, as the nest~knot — where a lingering grief lies, both buried and risen, still unresolved — deepens.
* La Manufacture: an artistic factory, an alternative concept oƒ artistic creation space in various forms. An island territory in the Fort-de-France cultural festival, where visual arts and performing arts are tried out, born, matured.
— Mylène Emica
** Coenesthesia: the immediate feeling oƒ existence, the aggregate oƒ impressions arising ƒrom organic sensations that forms the basis oƒ one's awareness oƒ body or bodily state, as the feeling oƒ health, vigor or lethargy.
*** Nannan: coconut pulp, by extension, what is best, deepest, the core, Nwn [ ... ]
— Mylène Emica
** Coenesthesia: the immediate feeling oƒ existence, the aggregate oƒ impressions arising ƒrom organic sensations that forms the basis oƒ one's awareness oƒ body or bodily state, as the feeling oƒ health, vigor or lethargy.
*** Nannan: coconut pulp, by extension, what is best, deepest, the core, Nwn [ ... ]
Specifications
media: mixed media sculptures, audio, video
space: La Rotonde, Aimé Césaire Cultural Park
time: 18 ︎︎︎ 20 July 2019
media: mixed media sculptures, audio, video
space: La Rotonde, Aimé Césaire Cultural Park
time: 18 ︎︎︎ 20 July 2019
Credits
curator: Mylène Emica
collective exhibition with Gwladys Gambie, Shanon Barro, Boîte Noire (Mylène Emica, Papa Slam, Christophe Césaire and Michel Pétris).
distorded conch sounds: Niyabja and Noss DJ
· In memory oƒ my father · infinite thanks to my loved ones ·
curator: Mylène Emica
collective exhibition with Gwladys Gambie, Shanon Barro, Boîte Noire (Mylène Emica, Papa Slam, Christophe Césaire and Michel Pétris).
distorded conch sounds: Niyabja and Noss DJ
· In memory oƒ my father · infinite thanks to my loved ones ·
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O
Solo exhibition at L’Aiguisoir — 2017
O — like infinite cycles and passages, the matrix, the mystery oƒ origins, the cosmos, echoes oƒ cells and gravitational waves. From the intimate microcosm to the universal macrocosm, I explore the notions oƒ memory, origin~passage and anchoring through water, black ink (Indian ink), and tree ash (charcoal), as well as through the sculpture oƒ the original circle, which — through its spiraling vibratory expansion in space-time — generates these mysterious tubular forms: roots, veins, hair, umbilical cords, nerves, neurons: intertwined.
〜In connection with O {Open Nannan Surgery} the 2019 installation above
3) With the curators: Adina Ochea, Ingrid Shügr, Christelle Duverly
4) Euzhan Palcy came to visit us one afternoon.
4) Euzhan Palcy came to visit us one afternoon.
Specifications
media: drawing, painting, sculpting
space: Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
time: 07 ︎︎︎ 08 / 2017
media: drawing, painting, sculpting
space: Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
time: 07 ︎︎︎ 08 / 2017
Credits
curators: Christelle Duverly, Adina Ochea, Ingrid Shügr
opening with Noss DJ, Sébastien Drumeaux and Nelly Stan
curators: Christelle Duverly, Adina Ochea, Ingrid Shügr
opening with Noss DJ, Sébastien Drumeaux and Nelly Stan
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Specifications
media: India ink drawing
space: àcôté
time: 2015
Crédits
curator: JF LeScour
collective exhibition with Fanny Guignard, Adèle Hughes
media: India ink drawing
space: àcôté
time: 2015
Crédits
curator: JF LeScour
collective exhibition with Fanny Guignard, Adèle Hughes
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From the deepest to the most distant parts oƒ our bodies~beings, the invisible tangle oƒ worlds that constitute and encompass us has been my main source oƒ inspiration ƒor this series. More specifically, these drawings emerged ƒrom my research on the nervous system, its impact on our organs, the links between the stomach and the brain — particularly the microbiota — and ƒrom conversations with a dear friend who first introduced me to quantum physics, a subject she had explored during her biology studies.
From the deepest to the most distant parts oƒ our bodies~beings, the invisible tangle oƒ worlds that constitute and encompass us has been my main source oƒ inspiration ƒor this series. More specifically, these drawings emerged ƒrom my research on the nervous system, its impact on our organs, the links between the stomach and the brain — particularly the microbiota — and ƒrom conversations with a dear friend who first introduced me to quantum physics, a subject she had explored during her biology studies.