Sans titre
Artist:
Marie-Michelle Deschamps
Date of creation:
2014
Medium:
Enamel on copper
Materials:
Enamel, Copper
Dimensions:
38 x 59 x 6 cm
Collection:
Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition:
2014
Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Sans titre, 2014, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR
A surface folded in on itself seems to move and stretch, revealing its hidden side. Its appearance is that of a cloth that has been thrown down and which is imbued with the contemplative quality of a drapery. Nevertheless, it is made of enamel, which does not detract from the sense of delicacy that emanates from it. Shaped by laser cutting, the sculpture Untitled is part of the artist’s experiments in language. Here, as in other works, she has used the enamelling technique traditionally used in the decorative arts and in jewellery. Since the nineteenth century, this technique has also been used in the production of road signs, thus adorning some of the most common objects with its brilliant varnish. Marie-Michelle Deschamps is interested in this cannibalism of method to produce abstract sculptures that never seem entirely finished: we are left waiting for the sign, the word, or the number that seems to be missing to surface, but which never comes. For Marie-Michelle Deschamps, it is more a question of observing the singular process of a deconstruction of language.
Exhibition
POP UP Truck
Galeries Lafayette, Paris (France)
from 03 Jun to 04 Jun 2016
Galeries Lafayette, Paris (France)
from 03 Jun to 04 Jun 2016
Marie-Michelle Deschamps
Born in 1980 in Montréal, Canada
Marie-Michelle Deschamps s’intéresse au langage et aux processus de signification. Elle met en exergue le rapport des mots aux choses et son travail est une métaphore qui lui permet de traduire le réel de façon distanciée. Il est, pour reprendre la notion d’Édouard Glissant, une manière de rendre compte de l’opacité à l’œuvre dans le processus de transposition du sens vers l’objet.
Née en 1980 à Montréal (Canada), Marie-Michelle Deschamps a été formée à la Glasgow School of Arts (Royaume-Uni). Elle vit et travaille entre Glasgow et Montréal.
Née en 1980 à Montréal (Canada), Marie-Michelle Deschamps a été formée à la Glasgow School of Arts (Royaume-Uni). Elle vit et travaille entre Glasgow et Montréal.
