Les forces heureuses

Céline Le Guillou

17 Jun — 17 Sep 2022

Céline Le Guillou (France, 1994) took part in the Residency Workshops for three months, an initiative of the Centre d’Art et Documents d’Artistes Bretagne. Each year the residency programme welcomes two artists living in Brittany or graduates of a School in the region. The exhibition ‘Les forces heureuses’ is the fruit of the work and research carried out by Céline Le Guillou during her period in Brest and was created in close collaboration with the teams of the arts centre and ceramics workshop on the Brest site of EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany).

The artist has undertaken a quasi-scientific observation of the human body and organic matter, while remaining within the field of the poetic. She previously developed a corpus of paintings, then sculptures, and recently chose to enhance her skills in ceramics by studying at the European Institute of Ceramic Arts in Alsace. Armed with this new knowledge, she wanted to develop her exhibition around a series of new sculptures, fired in Brest. She sought to take over the space by constructing a ‘drawing’ in three dimensions. Soft shapes and different textures spread themselves over furnishings created for the purpose by the artist. Their stands are therefore an integral part of the works and sometimes suggest scientific material.

Céline Le Guillou has composed a discussion between her pieces, as if there were a pre-existing and unknown means of communication between works of art. She regards her forms as a catalogue from which she can choose a vocabulary or a grammar. Her sculptures and paintings depict the interior of human bodies, what is meant to remain hidden, recalling medical dissection works and the iconography of the... [lire plus]

With thanks to the European Academy of Art in Brittany – Brest site


Part of the Residency Workshops programme, intended for emerging artists in Brittany, run by Passerelle et Documents d’Artistes Bretagne
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