Cannibale
Made with spray paint, Cannibale is presented as graffiti transposed onto paper. The wall is replaced by a blank sheet of paper, but Anne-Lise Coste retains the airbrush and the aesthetics of graffiti to write the word “cannibale” in capital letters, a technique that allows her to adopt a gesture combining immediacy, speed, and spontaneity. Through her practice, the artist also proceeds to a deconstruction of language. She takes words apart, isolates them and presents them as “visual phenomena,” dissolving the distinction between word and image. Thus detached from its signifier, Cannibale materialises an interjection and a statement formulated by the artist which is open to the spectator. The subjective emotion translated by this gesture is combined with a public critique by initiating a shift from the intimate to the collective.
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