Jean-Louis Rullaud and Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon examine through their respective works the notion of RUPTURE as a TEMPORAL SPACE, opening to a field of possibilities in the interpretation of the living, and its relation to its environment. The moment of RUPTURE is transported to the viewer via the photographs, in an optimistic vision, to be understood as a mutation of beings and of things. “As nothing is lost, and everything is transformed”.
The artistic practice of Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon's has been nourished by years of photographic inventorying of architectural constructions, done for the National Monuments institute of France, For La DRAC (The Artistic and cultural direction for the region, of the ministry of Culture) as for various architectural organizations.
In his work he photographs buildings or construction in ruins, surrounded by disembodied wild vegetation, disused into the earths, and it seems as if only the vegetation remain the components that represent the living.
In this exhibition he presents three series:
In the series, Sans titre, the architecture and the materials are modern, the vegetation around structural design are growing quiet high, strong and abundant, reflected and integrated into the habitat. The second, Les Floralies, is a joint architectural from the 1970s, designed to be destroyed. There, in between the deserted buildings, the vegetation, that have been once transported in and mastered by Man, now seems, in its absence, to grow slowly uninhabited, in a non-controlled expansion.
The third series, H14 is in black and white. In this series the plants are gone, the destruction is pending, and Ruining is in suspension.
The three series by Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon echo with the series of Natures Mourantes (Dying Nature) by Jean-Louis Rullaud.
In Natures Mourantes No. 1 "The speed is for Time what is rotting is to a fruit". The series questions the changes of the states of a consumable organic matter. The subject of these photographs, decomposition, contrasts with the highly mastered, almost pictorial, staging and deliberately conquered aesthetics of the photographs, which transform the rotting fruits,vegetables and fish into precious objects, just as the relationship of the human body to its inextricable fall forward.
Through these mise-en-scenes of Memento Mori, he interrogates human relationship to space and time as matters. He interrogates Hastiness that governs human's life in modern time, as his expected productivity, which prevents humanity from enjoying the time. These questions also come up in the series Natures Mourantes n ° 2, where he attempts to demonstrates what man cannot see; "Like a projectile in space, I am muddling towards the future", and where the nested speed in time is transforming the perception of space.
Jean-Louis Rullaud reinterprets with colours his landscapes’ photographs into a disturbing, strange, dying nature.
In human perception TIME AND SPACE have been dissociated. Time was perceived as a concept and not as a matter, nor as a physical reality. Yet, both are alienated, leading life into its material and immaterial decompositions.
Jean-Louis Rullaud and Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon, in their works, integrate the equation of "TIME" under its different aspects:
time that passes, time spent, future time… while putting in parallel variations of the states of the living matters, as human and their environment and their habitat.
Sometimes they propose us sensual metaphors of the body within nature, and more often difficult metaphors of the human manmade creation, represented here by an expanding urbanism, badly thought out, that ends up being destroyed. Just as the natural flora, also disappearing from the environment accuse of manmade doings.
These photographic projects both, question the form and the meaning, examining the temporary and the briefness of life, the space and time as matters, incorporates and transforms the perception of time and space, offering sensitive interpretations to reality.
RUPTURE, a SPACE-TIME, an exhibition presented at Mémoire de l'Avenir from May 4 to June 9, 2018.
RUPTURE, subst. fém.
Action of breaking or breaking off is the result of this action.
"To be at the disruption of things, to consider this act as a space, a duration, a concrete lapse of time, or as occurring events, upheavals of forms, biological transformations, metamorphoses.
Is there continuity in the break? Or a break in the continuity?
It is at the threshold of this state that we both have placed our eyes and witnesses of the multiple mutations, Visualizing time, transformation of life into another state of life, from construction to deconstruction and then again to construction.
Testifying the future of a ripped fruit, fallen from its tree, or a fish that is out of its water, and a housing-complex emptied out of its inhabitants.
Our materials are nature, concrete, steel, fruit, and essence. "
Jean-Louis Rullaud and Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon
Jean-Louis Rullaud
Antoine Guilhem-Ducléon
05.04 - 06.09.2018
Rupture,
a space-
time
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