BORDURE DE TERRAIN

Victoire Barbot’s Bordure de terrain advocates the movement and the sensitive experimentation of a story that would spread out like the different paragraphs of a poem. Various objects, materials samples and photographs adorn the window. Although motionless, each of the installations comes alive according to the angle, the eye level and the stroll of the spectator’s body. The shapes grow, stretch, observe each other, argue and answer each other. They become the unmoving bodies of a theater, the body of the street and the spectators who turn into choreographic objects led by the curiosity to turn around, temporize, set off again, go down, bend…

Each sculpture is an interconnection of past and future projects, a transient state highlighted by the subtle balance in which the artist placed each element. Between unveiling and camouflage, Victoire Barbot installs a small part of her collection of objects and materials that she gatahers during her strolls, residences and own story. The fragment of an object or a body constitutes a plastic vocabulary, a subjective vision of the world around us, the things we don’t use and forget. The evanescence of memory replaces the object, transforming it successively into a metaphor of a place, a state, a status quo.

Victoire Barbot’s work defies us, our memories and any cultural, spiritual or emotional load that we allocate to ‘things’. She reveals the singularity of a language of her own that determines progressively her playground.

« From sculpture to painting, Victoire Barbot’s approach keeps coming and going, seeking for the creation of a world of works that determine the terms of a sort of singular aesthetics, both minimalist and subjective. To this end, the artist focuses on the use of waste materials that she brings into play in compositions that evolve according to the order of inventories, series, installations, where drawing finds its place here and there. »*

* Extract of Victoire Barbot, un minimalisme très subjectif by Philippe Piguet.