Marine Chevanse. HEAR, Haute école des arts du Rhin, MA Art and Object. Selected Graduate 2018

HEAR, Haute école des arts du Rhin, MA Art-Object, Mulhouse / Strasbourg, France.

It is the energy of their environment that shapes one’s portrait. / Donna Haraway

Everything is an experience. How do I convey a feeling, a vibration, an impulse, an intangible movement?
One might sometimes realise that it is neither the action nor the result that matters, but that suspended moment that keeps us in a trance-like state.
But what is left of those ineffable moments during which we truly feel alive?
 
Through my works, I touch on two experiences both as much individual as they are collective: on one hand the Basque festival, carnivalesque traditions, and on the other hand ice hockey, through which I always try to observe things from the inside out. I focus on revealing this power given to objects through the ritual - mystical even - properties bestowed upon them during these performances. Bodies in motion, invisible energies, vital forces, space bringing members of a group together or setting them apart are thought processes which I use to express liberating moments from our social construct.
The astonishment and awe stemming from those rites represent the poetical driving forces of my research. From the beauty and atmosphere of preparatory gestures to that trigger, often that mere sound which leads us to action and enables us to finally reach a pure and liberating vibration.

Silences – Impulses - Rhythms – Disturbances – Intrigues. Handle the objects - Capture the movement - Stimulate curiosity - Provoke sensations… And the viewer becomes a spectator.
/ Marine Chevanse


More works and contacts:
Email: m.chevanse@hotmail.fr
Website: www.marinechevanse.com


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