Matières Cueillies

Artist list

Isabelle Azaïs, Xinyi Chen, Julie Decubber, Juliette Même, Ognyana Teneva, Charlotte Van de Velde

Through the work of Charlotte Van de Velde, Isabelle Azaïs, Julie Decubber, Juliette Même,
Ognyana Teneva and Xinyi Chen, it's a question of memory. Also about the future. Of abandonment and transformation, of shedding, if not of alchemy.

Antique clasps arranged in contemporary bracelets; ceramic shards, beans and santons resurrected in ribbons: the idea of a collection is embellished and expanded. Iridescent surfaces assembled into mutant creatures; dazzling refinements created from almost nothing; bottle threads knotted into lace: the old is reinvented, between models of the past and structures of the future. Electronic components set in recycled and tinted silver: the principle of the jewel, rethought, enters a new era.
 
Six singular, meticulous and daring approaches, opening up new semantic fields and manipulating the cursor on the axis of past/decommissioned - future/recomposed. A deliciously subtle dialogue develops between these multiple identities as they listen for the new.
 
Humour is often invited into these creative adventures, which are nevertheless imbued with an awareness of a shaky present. The works of the six artists brought together by Hectare under the banner of Matières cueillies are at times a mockery of prejudices and references to 'value', at other times an invitation to tell stories made up of memories or utopias, offering our senses a work of ennoblement where technical finesse is spiked with poetry, in pieces imbued with their plural personalities, between extravagance, rigour and lightness.


Opening: 17 October 2024 from 6.30 pm.

Opening hours:
17 October to 30 November 2024 Wednesday to Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm.