Young Pionner and CCTV
Chen Man
Elle(s)
Group exhibition
03/02/2022 - 27/03/2022
Space 3 bis
For the first exhibition of the year 2022, Galerie LOFT takes you on a discovery of the infinitely poetic universes of 8 women artists, photographers, painters and sculptors from 30 to 86 years old. Parvine Curie, Joséphine de Saint-Seine, Caroline Lazaroo, Chen Man, Deng Yu, Kong Shengqi and Raphaëlle Bertran explore, between France and China, our constantly changing world.
For the first exhibition of the year 2022, Galerie LOFT takes you on a discovery of the infinitely poetic universes of 7 women artists, photographers, painters and sculptors from 30 to 86 years old.
Parvine Curie, Joséphine de Saint-Seine, Caroline Lazaroo, Chen Man, Deng Yu, Kong Shengqi and Raphaëlle Bertran explore, between France and China, our constantly changing world.
“They” are indeed those who, both muses and demiurges, inspire us, by laying themselves bare. They develop, each in their own way, a language and a universe that is both very personal and intimate but charged with a powerful desire to involve the spectators in the process of perception and apprehension of their work. Whether by touching them, by playing, by projecting one's own memories or by inventing one's own stories, their works invite participation and become real supports for projection and emotions, access routes to depth of our beings and to our own intimacy.
Nostalgia for childhood or passing time, futuristic allegory or poetry of everyday life, creatures of the woods or seeds of the earth, maternal figure or origins of the world, each work is a concentrate of beings and worlds to explore, to dream or to admire.
By putting them in dialogue beyond any consideration of age or nationality, this exhibition aims to offer a new look at the work of these artists of different generations who challenge us and enrich the contemporary art scene with their authentic sensitivities.
Save the date // Saturday February 26 3-5:30 p.m. at Galerie Loft
Meetings with Joséphine de Saint-Seine, Caroline Lazaroo, Kong Shengqi and Raphaëlle Bertran
Artists
Josephine de Saint Seine
Joséphine de Saint-Seine, born in Paris in 1974, grew up in Apremont, a small village in Picardy and now lives and works in Marseille. She develops progressive work around the exploration of the origins of beings and the elements that make up our planet. It feeds on shapes and textures, materials and sensations, the symbolism of colors and the unpredictability of ink touching paper, lines and evanescence, but also the medicinal virtues of plants, the physical virtues and spiritual ones of modeling, and those, poetic and mental ones of writing.
Parvine Curie
Parvine Curie was born in Nancy in 1936, of French-Iranian origin. After her studies she left to visit Europe and decided to settle in Barcelona in 1957, discovering Catalan art. She practiced sculpture as an autodidact, following the advice of sculptor Marcel Marti with whom she had a son, David in 1959. In 1970, she moved to Paris and presented at the young sculpture salon, the work Première Mère, which marked the sculptor François Stahly. He invites her to come and work alongside him at the collective workshop in Crestet (Vaucluse). Parvine learns the basics of the trade, sculpts wood and stone. She married Stahly in 1975 and subsequently carried out numerous public commissions. Her work, which was initially more hieratic, then evolved into a more dynamic style. Her sculptures, between figures and architecture, and strongly inspired by the places she visited, are marked by pure lines and materials and testify to her constant desire to question space and light.
Kong Shengqi
Kong Shengqi's works, carved in wood, soft and clear, bring out of the material fantastic and organic creatures, with round faces and naive features, sometimes almost childish and sometimes terrifying. Her obvious love for the material that is wood and her way of sculpting particularly evokes the arts of the natives of North America, which can be found in Alaska or on the Inuit lands of Canada.
Caroline Lazaroo
"After making different types of photos, I realized that there is nothing that makes me happier than to photograph places abandoned. Is it by misanthropy or just for the simple fact of seeing the power of Nature and life that takes over, I cannot say. As soon as I am in these places, I feel good, calm. I feel as if time has stopped, as if we had taken a remote control and pressed the stop button, as if we had entered a bubble that exists only for ourselves. There is a sort of serenity, the sound of birds... It’s like being transported to another dimension, and that’s what I’m trying to show with my pictures.”
Chen Man
Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Marie-Claire, Cosmopolitan, Officiel, Esquire, Madame Figaro China… none could do without her and her instantly recognizable photos. Chen Man has also produced advertising campaigns in China for Lancôme, Motorola, Adidas, Nike, Max Factor and L'Oréal. Through her unique aesthetic, she now explores contemporary themes, always inspired by traditional elements of China, which allow her to decipher today's society from the inside.
Deng Yu
The works of Deng yu thus carry within them a freshness, a deceptively naive and "cute" which turn out to be terribly provocative on second reading. Her favorite character, the "Tomie" avatar, the neon yellow cut-out silhouette of a little girl projected into the heart of fantastic and phantasmagorical landscapes can thus, depending on the gaze or the composition be perceived as an erect penis which enters the heart of the work, or conversely a vagina from which emerges the scene taking shape before our eyes.