Remise en forme (X)
“The images, which hold Éléonore False in a captive fascination, rarely come from magazines or from urban noise that saturates our vision to the point of apathy. Her work is based on collecting reproductions in libraries, archives, books... The representation of the body is often the object of her research in fields ranging from anthropology to antiquity, from ruins to fashion, from art to dance. The artist manipulates, enlarges, shifts, slices, cuts and hollows out, and decolourises to bring images back to life, to revive them to our astonishment by playing with their situation, their proportions, or the perspectives they create. While the term ‘collage’ has been used to describe Éléonore False’s work, it fails to qualify a practice that is more closely related to the intelligence of sculpture. The images occupy the space, qualify it. The fragments of bodies often create a link between the plane and the volume, for which there is no modelling or shaping, but a simple shift from one to the other.” (François Quintin, excerpt from “Collagiste incantatoire”, Arts Magazine, September 2014)
Exhibition
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (France)
from 07 Mar to 24 Jun 2018