The incentive

A space for play and the “self”

 

Modeling workshop (1993-1996), Prof. Tjeerd Alkéma, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes (30) France. Since this period, many participants have developed an artistic approach, including Chantal Porras, Ludovic Isidore, Pierre Bessuges, etc. 

On the initiative of Jo-Anne Aguier, painter, and Jean-Pierre Gueydan, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, both friends and participants, thanks to Tjeerd Alkéma, his seriousness and his casualness, the creative experiment was able to begin. This space for play and experimentation “in the moment” allowed for the growth of the ‘I’ of the singular and autonomous subject.

 

Sublimation

Art makes the invisible visible

By giving it form “So as not to forget,” this artist transforms and freezes emotions in the aftermath, using the body as a medium. The emptiness of absence and finitude, thus made present by a sculpture, are rendered possible, visible, and bearable.

His works thus offer a certain legibility, a new way of recounting the emotional intensity of the scene. Isn't representing the body an attempt to evoke humanity through the living, through thought, through the soul that underlies it?

 

Desire

According to three thinkers

Originally from eastern France, this artist is passionate about the question of desire linked to three names of thinkers of Western civilization: Plato, Descartes, and Freud.

So much so that the choice of the quote from Plato's Symposium as the keystone of the exhibition of eleven artistic variations - at the Espace Lawrence Durrell in Sommières - gave her the necessary distance to question: according to Plato, “there can be no love of the ugly, the only possible love is the love of the beautiful” in The Symposium. “Passionate love has its origin in the action of the body,” according to Descartes in The Passions of the Soul. As for Freud, “Love is the reactivation of the forgotten past” in Sexual Life.

Works of art would therefore allow us to anticipate ourselves as an act of trying to invent, with the past, a near future or even a future. Through the object of art, the artist expresses in this way his relationship to the world as he feels and experiences it, in order to make it acceptable.

 

Innovation

Creative encounters in Southeast Asia

A few years later, when he changed careers to work in mental health, his creativity was put to good use in the creation of the “Toucher terre” workshop, which uses art therapy to help children in distress. In 2005, he joined ADEPASE, which allowed him to get involved in humanitarian missions and develop international solidarity initiatives in Vietnam and Cambodia.

At the same time, her discovery of Vietnam in 2005, during expeditions alongside her friend Laurent Séverac, the flavor hunter, gave her the opportunity to enrich her artistic work through creative encounters with Vietnamese artists who are bronze casters in the city of Thi Trân Lâm 10 - ý Yên, Nam Đin province (150 km south of Hanoi). This was the origin of the Bronze Art Exhibition in Hanoi. 

 

Participation in the Atelier Eve Tourmen in Aigues-Vives and creation of sculptures in marble powder and resin.