Containers, yes.
The kind you want to wrap your arms around, in a possible embrace, the kind you want to lean towards, hoping for a possible whisper.
Of those whose breadth creates a presence in space, of those whose generous openness creates a refuge. … In poetry? yes, again.
The memory of drafts crumpled in the wastebasket, the warm scent of paper, the crunch of the quill, the turning of pages, the emotions that are deposited and the life that is written.
All of which characterizes these emblematic works by artist Karine Denis: vast shells in bare raku with handwritten texts running through the interior, large loops of instinctive writing, mysterious calligraphy tattooed into the porcelain layer.
A memory of movement, of momentum.
But beyond the Contenants à poésie, the solo exhibition “Un souffle (de poésie)”, conceived by the artist as an invitation to reverie, presents, in an immersive installation, many other aspects of her universe: totems, porcelain pages, a graphite column and a circular painting in the guise of a pictorial and hypnotic black hole…
It’s an opportunity for this artist, who has been immersed in ceramics since her youth, to push experimentation to the limit, to the very limits of the templates she manipulates during the decisive stage when the breath is held: the physical and emotional test of the flame.
Albane Herrgot