Les Larmes (exclusion de la tautologie #7)
Artist:
Etienne Chambaud
Date:
2008
Medium:
Sculpture
Materials:
Plexiglas, Wood, Water, Plastic
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
The meaning of Les Larmes (exclusion de la tautologie #7) stems from the dialogue maintained with the other works that make up its environment, thus becoming porous to its context of display. The title and nature of this readymade—a bottle of fake tears—underline an ambiguity about the sincerity of emotions, highlighting the role-playing that drives our social behaviour. These artificial tears seem to be saying that affection is not always a pure and unsimulated feeling of kindness. Étienne Chambaud’s work is constantly developing to gradually draw the contours of a constellation of common references. It functions like a page on which a multitude of images and ideas which appear as each viewer’s mind wanders. Étienne Chambaud pursues a demanding reflection on the nature of the work of art, on the relationships it maintains with other works, and on the contexts and reasons for the appearance of objects, whether they are charged with meaning or with a particular narrative. His works retain the trace of a previous work while proposing a new composition, oscillating endlessly between an inescapable repetition and the opening up of a constantly renewed horizon.
Exhibitions
Objet de tendresse
Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (France)
from 05 Apr to 17 Apr 2018
Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (France)
from 05 Apr to 17 Apr 2018
Antidote 5
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 20 Oct 2009 to 09 Jan 2010
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 20 Oct 2009 to 09 Jan 2010