Mémoire de l'Avenir presents from January 19 to February 16, 2019 "From Dawn to dusk" an exhibition that brings together the works of 7 contemporary artists. Their works are questioning time and light, natural or artificial, as elements both intangible and inseparable, that influences our perception of realities.s.
Delphine Armilles
Fatima Garzan
Sarah Munro
Lizzania Sanchez
Irene Shraer
Lydia Sivane
Suki Valentine
From Dawn to Dusk: A space, both temporal and geographic, through which light endures a thousand of variations, differing from one end of the globe to another.
In this phase between times, the light reveals or hides. When it is lacking there arises anxiety, strangeness, disenchantment with the world, a confusion of landmarks; plunged into a state where the perception of beings, places and things may change.
When the light bursts up - Fiat Lux* - it made life and creation possible. Symbolically in all cultures of the world, light is associated with knowledge, progress or divinity and therefore life; on the other hand, shadow can symbolize, darkness, death, ignorance but also the secret of life, just like the centre of the grain, the mystery of the conception of life, an intimate time, that of the resourcefulness and of dreams, where the imagination unfolds, and the creation will blossom.
For artists, the light constitutes a formal study since the origins; exploring ways for how to reproduce it, sublimate it, to question it and how to handle it, looking to offer it as a tangible experience; Light as a material and as subject-object that reveals profound questions, and invites us to understand the arts in their most fundamental dimensions. It becomes for artists a way to determine the conditions of possibility of our aesthetic and ethics experiences, and thus to shape our relationship to the world as much as our relationship to the creative work.
Through the senses of these 7 artists, merging from different countries, cultures and mediums, the exhibition offers a contemplative experience of the metamorphosis of a world, from one point to another, from one state to another, A roaming that questions sensations and perceptions.
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*Fiat Lux
Fiat lux is a Latin phrase present at the beginning of the mythology of Genesis. It is the first word of God, an order given when he created the light on the first day of the creation of the world, translatable into English as "Let there be light".