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Corps premiers
Virginie Hucher & Emmanuelle Roule
September 2021
The poetry of form
Everything happens in two stages.
First there is the imposing form.
Then there is the material and its movement, which gives it life.
Virginie Hucher is at one with nature. She has created her own register of forms, almost a language: floating organic elements on a monochrome background. These forms are almost familiar to us, like primordial bodies, elements that exist and are visible at the microscopic level that the artist brings to our scale. They are part of us, they surround us, they compose us. Vital forms that evoke our natural environment in their register, their colours and the evocative titles chosen by the artist. It is the earth, the sky, the tree, the fertile... the living that are invoked here. /.../ What may at first seem disconcertingly simple - in colour, form or composition - is in fact a kind of self-evident truth. Our gaze is soothed and free: we can question what we see or be carried away by an endless imagination.
Organic architecture
Emmanuelle Roule's work seems closer to sculpture than to the usual practice of ceramics.
She frees herself from the form by any means necessary... she sets it free.
Thanks to its plasticity, earthenware allows Emmanuelle to reconstruct spaces.
Like imaginary architectures, more organic, sometimes angular, but always enhanced by rich, figurative glazing.
Two colours in particular adorn her pieces: green and blue. The reflections projected on the colours enliven and brighten them, giving the sculpture an organic dimension at the edge of life.
With mischief and poetry, the artist often punctuates her constructions with modular, autonomous pieces, sometimes in shiny silver enamel, like a playful invitation to make her world your own.
Amélie du Chalard
