Reflexion 2015

Chloé Desjardins has a particular interest in sculpture, shapes and materials, with a marked predilection for casting and moulding, a technique that allows her to reproduce common or generic objects, sometimes resulting from industrial mass production. This choice then raises the question of the value of the object and its uniqueness. A choice that also confronts preconceived ideas about the status of artwork. The sculpture-objects of the artist are staged in compliance with museum exhibition conventions that apply more particularly to sculptures. On the one hand, these institutional codes of presentation amplify the idealization of the work, and on the other hand, place them in a deliberate mode of seduction. In her exhibition at Plein sud, the artist takes this strategy to another level by placing each work facing its double, inverted like a reflection in a mirror. – Jérôme Delgado