Le dragon dragone

Transplant : the grafting of a tissue from one place to another, just as in botany a bud from one plant might be grafted onto the stem of another. The transplanting of tissue can be from one part of the patient to another (autologous transplantation), as in the case of a skin graft using the patient’s own skin ; or from one patient to another (allogenic transplantation), as in the case of transplanting a donor kidney into a recipient. (www.medicinenet.com)

The transplant : it is the word we use to refer to the protean work of Sabrina Montiel-Soto. Sculptures, drawings, objects, films and videos, collages, sound compositions, each used medium rebuilds itself and connects with others, through times and cultures. This assembling is never constraining. For Sabrina Montiel-Soto, these installations are “fragments of an individual story, seen from a personal perspective.” Her work and research result more from fiction than from a scientific approach. The artwork presented at Art au Centre is “a reflection on today’s world” articulated around old Belgian newspapers collected for one year without being read.

These newspapers, old volumes from the Libre Belgique, were for instance used to create a video, a film to be finished, a set of collages and now this sculptural constellation. Rather than a too didactic speech, suggestion here is omnipresent : references are open, interpretations are free, the composition seems to be random and yet designed mathematically, both structured and chaotic.

The whole evokes a musical composition, a score full of changes of pace, full of high and low notes. The texts and images glued on wood panels, painted or not, are equally banal and meaningful, independent or referring to one another. It is then up to the observer to eventually « transplant » his own interpretation to these relationships suggested by the artist.