VAGUES DU RÉEL, SOUS VERRE

Amalia Laurent proposes to bring out the dream place, a place that was hiding behind the visible. She thus carries the visitor into a state of awake daydream and the scenery, almost warped by dint of being used, slips away facing the woodland paintings that the look meets. It is a question of drawing a fleeting interval, unveiling the fragility of the space as we live it : almost always engraved in a time that the artist enjoys suspending. The artwork takes place on the edge of fantasy that it arouses : we imagine the artist working on his batiks according to the Javanese tradition in the middle of the trees that inspired her motifs, but also on the edge of a more worrying perspective, the perspective of only finding a desert behind the windows half open on the cold and grey tiles of the window, in other words, of being confronted with the risk of seeing nothing else than what’s detected by our senses.

Amalia Laurent works in situ in this abandoned and transitional space and seizes the parallel worlds that she is used to manipulate to create a visual illusion. She thus tries to give a meaning to her dreams of desert and genesis, to the absence of the places that could have existed and to the parallel dimensions that might be existing. She distorts a so called « objective » cliché to question the limits of space and to take advantage of the ambiguity of the volumes that are specific to the trompe-l’œil. A touch of melancholy anyway blows on this dream of enhanced reality : passersby have direct access to the Javanese traditions that she loves, to the trees that animate her and to the desert that she sketches. There would be a pact made with the silence and the anxiety in the vicinity of art.