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T?moins Oculaires at Spike Island
Spike Island presents a new solo exhibition by French artist Isabelle Cornaro which focuses on new and recent work.
Isabelle Cornaro lives and works in Paris. She primarily works with painting, sculpture, film and installation in order to explore the influence of history and culture on our perception of reality. Cornaro uses found objects which she considers to have symbolic potential or emotional value. She then presents them in different styles of displays and media so that they will reveal the subtle shifts of meaning which are provoked by the processes of reproduction and translation
These ¬‘found’ artefacts are often borrowed from domestic, decor¬ative or functional environments and contexts and are frequently linked to Western culture ¬as a means of power. Their combination -and a¬rra¬ngement in the a¬rtist’s work invites spect¬ators to question the rela¬tionships between systems of representa¬tion ¬and our understanding and domin¬ation, of the world.
At Spike Island, Cornaro’s exhibition Témoins oculaires,meaning ‘eye witnesses’ features a series of specially commissioned installations where the artist continues her investigation into composition, visual perception and interpretation.
These tableaux which could be described as a physical representations of the act of watching, activate specific viewpoints reminiscent of cinematic and editing techniques (framing, focus, close-up, wide angle, tracking, sequence shot etc).
They can be likened to the sculptural equivalents of the artist’s recent films ‘Metronomie’, ‘ Amplifications’ and ‘Choses’ (all 2014) in which she considers concepts such as accumulation, symmetry and entropy. The films will also be screened in the exhibition.
The exhibition is completed by a series of monochrome paintings which are accurate reproductions of enlarged stills from the artist’s 2010 film ‘ Floues et colorées’ in which colour is sprayed on a picture plane by an invisible hand.
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