NOIRS
Where NOIRS honours light and colours…
The NOIRS exhibition was presented:
From June 20 to September 9, 2018 in the art gallery of the Relais & Châteaux Saint-James in Bouliac
From April 24 to 28, 2019 as part of the 10th International Multihull Show
From June 25 to July 15, 2021 at La Vitrine / Valérie Coraini, Bordeaux
In 2023 — new edition
Black is the origin. With the appearance of light, different BLACKS were revealed, multiple, sensitive, fragile but with such presence! BLACKS born from the deprivation of light, BLACKS reflections of non-reflections, a kind of anti-light that reveals colours, lights and materials. They emphasize, reveal, make us aware of riches so close. Magical, simple, everyday.
We took as a starting point material, spatial realities conducive to the imagination; one might be tempted to recognize skins, minerals, wine cellars, roads, mountains, water, sea, stars, charcoal, technical fabrics, bolt or dancer. But do we really need these eclectic identifications? They are only starting points, initializations, suspensions of time, like still images masterfully illuminated by the BLACKS…
We are often close to abstraction, approaching the boundary between dream and realism in a curious, exciting and complicit approach. By combining imagination and reality, reveries and origins merge.
Because light is our brush, we wanted to continue playing, dreaming, searching even further… To pierce holes for light.
BLACKS
Black is not sad! It is beautiful because through its self-denial, it allows us to perceive, to see and to discover light and colours, and thus material.
In our culture, the relationship between blacks and colours is not as binary as one might think. If absolute black absorbs all wavelengths, it would be characterised by an absence of colour, but reality is quite different, much more surprising!
Very rarely pure, black is inseparable from colours. It reveals micro-details, tendencies, influences, so that each more or less luminous point makes us perceive one or several isolated or dominant colours, because it leans on the material, accomplice to the light. In this respect, black is not unique, it is fundamentally multiple.
But this multiplicity remains mysterious: we readily speak of "deep black" and curiously never of "light black": if it is deep, is black not also a revealer?
Such an incursion into the worlds of BLACKS is a fun, sometimes complicated but fascinating quest… To make light and colours burst from black, one must be attentive, curious, challenge preconceived ideas and question oneself.
Before starting our actual work, we must research and experiment, go back, move forward and not let ourselves be defeated.
At the birth of each image there is a real basis, regardless of its origin, what matters is the attraction that the final image arouses, its power of seduction, to take us elsewhere, into a world that each person can imagine according to their own dreams and imaginations. We simply hope that this exhibition transports visitors elsewhere, gently, and lets them enjoy the incredible and surprising riches of BLACKS…
