“Odyssey of a Tranquility” by Mathilde Lauret

Tampon University Library

from August 26 to December 15, 2024

The exhibition is a moving testimony to the ability of deafness to transcend sensory limitations, offering a moment of calm, reflection and inspiration in an often noisy world. It highlights a unique personal journey in search of quietude within a tumultuous sound environment. Mathilde shares her inner journey, marked by the quest for calm and serenity amidst the daily chaos of sound that impacts the individual and nature. Her search for silences reflects her deep emotions and personal experiences, capturing the beauty, torment and power of these moments of tranquility. Through drawings, sculptures and other forms of artistic expression, she invites the public to discover the multiple dimensions of a silent world, creating a dialogue between sounds, images and perception. Visitors are invited to contemplate, meditate and feel the transformative power of silence, as well as the invisible impact of its parasitic noises on the environment.

Artist biography:

Mathilde Lauret is a deaf visual artist who uses the sounds of silence as the main medium in her artistic approach. She obtained her National Diploma of Plastic Expression (DNSEP) in September 2020, at the École Supérieure d'Art de La Réunion. Born the only profoundly deaf person in a Reunion-Creole family, she moved to the south of Reunion around the age of six, due to health concerns. She inherits many cultures, worlds and crossbreeding from Reunion: her main approach is in sound and visual installations, whether they contain videos, sculptures, sound, text, drawing, plants... today she questions labels imposed by a language, according to her, hearing, as well as the relationship of the body with the sound world. She continues to explore sound as an (in)audible, living and solid material in the form of poetic vibrations, since we never listen only with our ears.