ATTENTION OEUVRES PIEGEES
Une caractristique gnrale des Ïuvres de Brigitte Zieger est quĠil sĠagit dĠimages piges, de petites machineries mettre en question lĠattrait et le rle de lĠart, tout en nous rendant celui-ci toujours et encore ncessaire, dans un de ces fconds et insolubles paradoxes de la post-modernit.
Systmatiquement semble-t-il, le regardeur est attir, sduit, puis pris au pige de son got pour de si belles images : une lecture pousse jusquĠau bout rvle en effet une autre face du monde, et derrire les apparences et les apparats de la beaut et de la srnit, apparaissent les signes de toutes sortes de violences. LĠintrication des deux niveaux de lecture nĠest pas toujours effectu de la mme manire : il peut sĠagir de formes qui en habitent dĠautres comme des virus (dans les dcoupages par exemples), il peut sĠagir de points de vues contradictoires (pour certaines sculptures), il peut sĠagir de renversements oprs dans le temps dĠune vision (pour les vidos), ou dans la duplicit des signes mis en Ïuvres (par exemple les scintillements de la srie Eye-Dust, dus aux paillettes intgres lĠombre paupire utilise, mais qui figurent aussi des dbris de mtal incandescents et mortels). Jamais assurment Brigitte Zieger ne nous laisse regarder tranquilles, sans doute ne lĠest-elle gure elle-mme, et de ces deux intranquillits nous lui savons gr.
Pas question donc pour l'artiste dĠembellir lĠespace sans contrepartie. Son jeu semble consister produire des Ïuvres dĠart parfaitement dsirables (lgance des formes, qualit du dessin, prestance de la prsentation, complexit smantique, humour, et mme rotisme parfois), mais qui pour autant ne cesseront de rappeler que le monde est une aire dĠinfinies destructions, alinations, et oppressionsÉ Une aire o pouvoir et violence sĠexercent partout aveuglement. Des Ïuvres, donc, qui disent et interrogent notre capacit ne pas les voir, garder Ç les yeux largement ferms È.
BAITED ARTWORKS
I would like to draw attention to a general characteristic of Brigitte Zieger's work which is far from insignificant, the fact that it is made up of an insidious machinery questioning art, without however ceasing to imply that it is still, inevitably necessary, in one of these prolific and insoluble paradoxes of post-modernity.
Indeed the viewer is systematically drawn towards, and seduced by, his or her taste for such beautiful compositions, before becoming ensnared; for what lies within them are what everyone feels are the visible signs of all kinds of violence. The intricacy of those two levels of reading is not always concretised in the same way; sometimes it can be forms that subtly inhabit others like a virus (the cut out papers for instance), sometimes it can be contradictory perspectives (for some sculptures), inversions made in a glimpse (the videos), or the duplicity of signs (in Eye-Dust, the pretty shimmering effect is the result of the use of the eye shadow powder, yet it is also a reminiscent symbol of deadly incandescent fragments of metal. Brigitte Zieger is perpetually preventing us from watching serenely, perhaps due to the fact that she herself is not so serene, and for that we are grateful to her.
No question of her embellishing the space without a price. Her work seems to waver between the schizoid desire to produce esthetically desirable artworks (elegant forms, quality of the drawing, allure, humour, subtle semantics, even eroticism sometimes), and the need to continually remind us that our world is made up of infinite destruction, alienation and oppression. Disillusioned artworks which question our capacity to integrate a social contract that is a minefield of every kind of violence, and to keep one's "eyes mainly closed" upon it.
(english translation by Carmela Uranga)
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Attention Ïuvres piges Baited Artworks (press version) Philippe Fernandez |
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Attention Ïuvres piges Baited Artworks (catalogue version) Philippe Fernandez |
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Sculpture des images Sculpture of images Dominique Pani |
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La qualit n'a pas de sexe Excellence has no sex Estelle Pags |
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The Shadow Gilles A. Tiberghien |
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Vita activa Florence Derieux |
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Eye-Dust Philippe Fernandez |
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Pieces of Possible History Julie Crenn |
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