VEILLEUSE

Amélie Scotta’s architectures directly question our housing conditions and the town planning that results from it, in other words, our life within a neighborhood, a community and overall a society. Moreover, the metropolitan trend towards verticality and monumentality represents an intrinsic feature of her work. As these architectures whose top gets away from the ground to better caress the sky in proportions that are always more significant, the drawings and photographs of the artist focus on this notion of infinity by questioning the technical and ethical limits of humanity. How far will we go ? What height will we reach to develop always denser and more unbearable towns ? Our lifestyle, the way we surround ourselves, the way we cram is questioned through these artworks.

« Veilleuse is an installation that gives prominence to the line, the line of the horizon standing out between the buildings, the lines of our architectures and our cities in constant development. It also evokes the connection between modern metropolis and the night. Constantly in standby mode, we live in a world where darkness and night vision become scarce to make room for permanent daylight. The title Veilleuse, a small lamp constantly lit, echoes our ancestral fear of the dark and heights, forcing us to agglutinate, to build and to light up always more. It also refers to the comforting little blue flame kept to launch our devices. Combining photography and drawing, the installation spreads out on various plans : the wall, the window and the space that connects them. Shades of black and blue dominate, but so do the effects of transfer, transparence and vacuum construction.

(Amélie Scotta)