" Untitled album "

From January 16 to February 24, 2023, the Education BU is pleased to offer you the exhibition

" Untitled album "
painting, drawing and video
by Elsa Moscato

Drawing workshop with the artist: Wednesday February 1st from 14 p.m. to 16 p.m. (priority to INSPE students) followed by a meeting with the artist and friendly drink at 16 p.m. (open to all)

A word from the artist:

What additives, what paradise around us! And on a daily basis, we must combine with the maximum dose of images, products transformed through an incredible fauna which envelops us: avatars, mascots, characters, creatures, toys, constitute liters of figures ingested. Animal muses carry a need for entertainment, a break from boredom, an addiction to fun. What does this appetite, this compulsion, this sometimes formatted imagination say about us? The “Untitled Album” exhibition could come out of a children’s illustration book, leaping up a page; simply each character dares the space of the canvas, the gaze lost in a distant thought or lost in an interior reflection, and transforms what could have been words into a quantity of sensitive vibrations.

This hybrid ensemble reveals a parallel world, a brazen corpus which brings together more or less conscious projections of phantasmagorical beings using ambiguity. Some species are identifiable, others more indefinable, and the artist unleashes his grain of madness: these funny paintings are receptors, emotional catalysts. You may have noticed: the rooster sporting phallic mammary papayas, the calf displaying a beef heart fused with its teats, the frog and its ambiguous fruit costume, special, right? Sometimes borrowing disrupted codes, some creatures take on scraps of debates, fragments of society, others squarely take on the fantasy of surreality which would have difficulty justifying each painted millimeter. And besides, the projected video takes you for three minutes of hallucinatory plasticity into the realm of the strange.

But deep down, what are we through our eyes? Consumers of the visual, spectators, stunned observers, users who have stored up so much information, objects, conditioned dreams, viral madness since childhood? Scrutinizing rodents and amphibians, perplexed mammals, felines and sea birds, errors of nature and grotesque creations, the eye recognizes a few fragments: membranes, suction cups, fibers, tentacles, cells... These are universes in themselves, cosmic nurseries , perhaps mirrors on the border of dreams sending us back to ourselves, because the human being, who seems absent here, is never very far away.

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