Origin II (Burning of the Houses)
The environment created by Dora Budor creates a post-apocalyptic vision of a barren future through strange miniatures of a world where all that remains is a desolated horizon illuminated by harsh light. Like the ash of the devastating fire suggested by the title of the work, fine dust particles swirl and invade the space. The artist refers here to the two paintings entitled The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1834) by the English painter William Turner, which she chose as they are the “first representations of thermodynamic variations visible in the atmosphere.” Dora Budor draws on stories of anticipation and science fiction, cinema, literature, and painting: her chambers function like the dioramas of the nineteenth century that reconstituted scenes in miniature, but are also reminiscent of the hermetic chambers used for scientific experiments. Multiple references intersect in this enigmatic macrocosm where the poetry and strange beauty of a glowing light like that of an inferno collide with the vision of a desolate universe.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier (France)
from 09 Mar to 19 May 2024
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France)
from 06 Apr to 03 Sep 2023