Work from the Collection

Ego, he goes (Fridge selfspeech and shine love consciousness - Period!)

Artist: Gaëlle Choisne
Date: 2021
Materials: Plexiglas gravé, Metal, Engraved Plexiglas, Engraved and pigmented acrylic resin, Sound system , Ceramic, Found photographs and documents, Magnets, Printed wooden case, Speaker, Aluminium lamination
Collection: Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain: Installation sonore

In this audio installation featuring an open refrigerator, Gaëlle Choisne engages the viewer by inviting them to study the products it contains, and by desacralising the work of art through the sculpture’s functional aspect. This “material storytelling”, to use the artist’s own words, in which different materials coexist, serves both to denounce capitalism and consumer society through waste, and to recall Gaëlle Choisne's roots and her local involvement, particularly with photographs of Haiti. As for the work’s humorous title, it is in keeping with the artist's interest in the theme of love, such as in Temple of Love, a project inspired by the writings of Roland Barthes.

Text written by Louise Glodt-Chauchoy as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.


Exhibitions

Art Basel 2022
Art Basel, Bâle (Suisse)
from 16 Jun to 19 Jun 2022
Triennal: Soft Water Hard Stone
New Museum, New-York (États-Unis)
from 28 Oct 2021 to 23 Feb 2022
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