Simone Holliger. Use my saliva

Exhibitions Arts Cultures-Simone Holliger. User ma salive
This sculptural installation, allows Simone Holliger de S ' Entering the limits of the paper medium for a monumental and new proposition. Ventenating Saturday June 18, 2022 at 5 p.m. Simone Holliger draws, sculpts and assembles volumes to bring up bas-reliefs and round -Bosses like great characters that she puts on the ground. It feeds on the formal vocabulary of the 20th century avant-garde sculpture to develop geometric and organic forms. Holliger adopts an uninhibited vision of the medium and uses precarious materials, often paper that evokes crumpled sheet, but also foam, sagex and plaster.

In the exhibition space, abstract forms become architectural and anthropomorphic figures. Two sculptures coexist, both independent and gathered by a tortuous link. The installation evokes the intimate question of the couple: what space for oneself, what relationship with the other, what belongs to us? It shakes up the ideal representations, socially normalized and questions what is understood, admitted, compulsory. The interaction and the interval between objects dig empty space, between interior and exterior, an architectural depth playing with the ambiguities.

Although his works with imposing dimensions suggest a very mineral solidity and density, they are only simulacres formed by fragile materials: the two figures are like facade monoliths, cardboard colossi similar to those of processions and Carnavals. They become the concretions that question the pretenses of our intimate lives.

Simone Holliger was born in 1986 in Aarau. She lives and works in Basel.
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  • Category

    Exhibitions Arts Cultures
  • Start date

    Sunday 19 Jun 2022 à 10:00
  • End date

    Sunday 16 Oct 2022 à 17:00
  • Address

    Musée des beaux-arts, Rue des Musées 33, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH

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Exhibitions Arts Cultures-Simone Holliger. Use my saliva