Edith LONGUET-ALLERME Habitation de lemmes (2) Year... Lot 16

Edith LONGUET-ALLERME Habitation de lemmes (2) Year of production: 2014 Material: drawing, building material powder Dimensions: 56 x 76 cm Biography, presentation of artistic approach: Born in 1987, Edith Longuet-Allerme lives in Normandy and works around the world. "The artist is a tightrope walker, she walks on this thread stretched between the founding elements and what of them, shelters in her to genesis of a fragile creation, at the mercy of the wind, of dispersion, of the ephemeral, the indefinite, the intransigent. The works of Edith Longuet-Allerme do not represent. If they have a figure, it is that of the work that witnesses the instant of its emergence, which a subtle way of perceiving it makes live from all eternity in the childhood of our glance. Suddenly we blow bubbles that form galaxies, we throw feathers in the air reminiscent of angelic packs, a drop of water pours into a river of tears, a grain of sand scrapes the rotation of the earth, a dust blinds God. The work is there, like an apparition-disappearance, an invitation to the most beautiful solitary walks, the wanderings of our childhood on the continents drifting to envy... For this subtlety of the unseen of the most basic things of our perception, Edith Longuet-Allerme does not hesitate to put herself in danger with the materials. She experiments with them and it is this experience which the work testifies against any mastery of a result with regard to their approach. The work thus immerses us in her own making, step by step as sometimes in one go, with a single vital impulse, this imperishable breath of discovery which becomes vision because it remains fragile and humble in the face of the unknowable. We cannot confront an artist's achievement without experiencing our own subtlety in welcoming it, without understanding the enigma of our own gaze on it and on the elements. It is undoubtedly in this that Edith Longuet-Allerme becomes our own awakene