Pour son premier festival consacré à la création contemporaine, le Jeu de paume a laissé entrer la lumière à grands flots dans ses salles, dégageant, voire creusant dans les murs des ouvertures qui laissent apercevoir le quit le tour Eiffs’ Tuileries Garden. A brilliant idea (and a rarity in museum spaces, where the “white cube” is prized), curator Beatrice Gross, who collaborated on the event with artist Katinka Bock. Above all, an innovation that takes on its full meaning in the face of the chosen title, Fata Morgana.
The term refers to a mirage occurring on the surface of the sea, which, hanging above the water, conjures up a distorted vision of what lies beyond the horizon: an illusory ship, the shape of a platform of flying oil, a floating island … Under this title, it is already a matter of perception – its complexity, its poetry, its illusions – Which lies at the heart of the selected works, signed by twenty-six different artists.
Over the course of hours, the appearance of the rooms changes, the light plays with the works on display, and modifies their appearance. The sun shines in the petrified images of Ilanit Illouz, creating new perspectives in their quirky roofs: the artist depicted the dry landscape left behind by the Dead Sea, victim of global warming and overexploitation of resources, by mixing his works with salt chosen even on site. His shimmering images have a mysterious charm, as are the jagged salt crystals on the surface, symbols of preservation and destruction.
A little further afield, the sun also comes in to double the cross-streak dazzle in the crisp photos of Jochen Limbert. On two different walls, the German artist has installed a mosaic of delicate images filled with winks, backlights, and reflections. But above all, she is wonderful light bath (1998) by Ann Veronica Janssens, which takes advantage of this encounter with the outside: consisting of four glass spheres filled with water and stacked, which absorb, reflect and distort everything around, including the scenes …
Between poetry and triviality
The majority of the works shown are very recent and a certain number has been produced for the exhibition. Even if they often incorporate images, they paint a much more contemporary aspect of art than classical photography: video, sculpture, robotics, sounds, and murals. be more realistic. Thus Antoine Catala created an inflatable alphabet that unfolds and unfolds to the rhythm of the various pumps, like a new language that seems independent and free. In fact, the typography used, Noto Sans, is that of a font that is designed and distributed free of charge everywhere by Google. The artist himself invented two small robots that chat under the stairs with the dots, lines and arcs that make up the smileys.
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