House of the Rising Sun
Between sculpture and painting, House of the Rising Sun represents two isolated workers’ garden sheds on a white surface. Taken out of context, they direct our attention to the structures and the forms and materials that they are made of. This section of landscape, both flat and raised, disturbs our perception of space. Made from the original materials, it combines glass, wood, fabric, and concrete, among others, to give a flattened reality to the represented sheds. By working on depth and materials, Sylvain Rousseau flattens the initial structures, transforming the three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional image. A “painting-object” which plays with the displacement and perception of images, House of the Rising Sun questions our way of receiving the works and the world they represent.
Text written by Suzana Danilovic as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 13 Sep to 03 Nov 2007