Sophie Bueno-Boutellier
Solo Show TOUCHE-MOI at Le Panorama - La Friche Belle de Mai Marseille
12..02—16.05.21
Press Release:
Cédric Aurelle, curator:
"Would it be possible to be born again? To be born a second time, but to be born as an adult and plunge into a singular world without having had the time to learn the language, customs or representations... To envisage the world at skin level, so as to feel its raw reality and allow oneself to be penetrated by it, without filters of interpretation and stripped of one's protective shell. It's another way of ‘emptying ourselves to make every experience possible’, as Emmanuele Coccia wrote in his Metamorphoses. Sophie Bueno-Boutellier's Touche-moi invites us to share this life-like experience.
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‘The mother is (...) in reality a partial substitute for the ocean’[1] and it is in a gigantic aquatic matrix opening onto the harbour of Marseille and the northern districts of the city that Sophie Bueno-Boutellier plants, like floating seaweed, immense painted canvases, producing a feeling of oceanic infinity articulating not so much a didactic path marked out with immutable truths as intuitive paths conducive to affective interactions.
Coming from practices rooted in the ground, linked to sculpture and installation, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier sees painting as a way of refounding her artistic ethos since moving to Marseille in 2018. In a movement of vertical elevation, she engages her whole body in painting, painting with her bare hands in direct contact with the canvas. The skin plays a fundamental role here, not only as a surface for the coloured pigments to adhere to, but also as a tactile zone, porous to external elements as well as to the grains of the canvas. (...)
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier's work has a resolutely mystical dimension that is reinforced by the cathedral-like elevation of the Panorama exhibition space, which she transforms into a moment of collective communion. Touche-moi provides an opportunity to rethink the exhibition principle in the light of the major anthropological changes we are currently experiencing, by putting the relationship with others back at the heart of the issues at stake. With the help of a number of accomplices from very different worlds, Touche-moi will unfold over four months, without a vernissage or finissage, but in a temporality of varying intensities, like an inhabited space in which we can dance, drink, eat, sing... and be moved".
[1] Sándor Ferenczi, quoted by Emmanuele Coccia in Métamorphoses.
Collaboration : Caetano. Participation : Won Jin Choi et La Gousse
