March 1 - November 11, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, 2019 at 3PM
Artist’s Talk at 4PM. Refreshments to follow.
Geneviève Rossillon of Les Jardins de Marqueyssac and Candace Huey of re.riddle are pleased to invite you to the opening reception of the contemporary art exhibition, which will take place in the gardens from March 1 to November 11, 2019. Artists Atelier YokYok, Boris Labbé, Summer Lee and Hongtao Zhou will create site-specific installations and sculpture within the grounds of Les Jardins Suspendus de Marqueyssac.
Les jardins suspendus de Marqueyssac - 24220 Vézac - www.marqueyssac.com
Image Credit: Jardins de Marqueyssac, Perigord.
Atelier YokYok, Icebergs, site-specific installation for Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Emerging out of the gardens as unidentified drifting objects, ‘‘Icebergs’’ participates in a dialogue with the site and plays with the perception of depth. While sinking into the vegetation and highlighting the picturesque viewpoint offered by this part of the park, ‘‘Icebergs’’ offers a transformation of the boxwoods into a pool of water. The white volumetric lines evoke melting ice, a transition from solid to liquid state as a consequence of global warming...
Image credit: Atelier YokYok, Icebergs, site-specific installation for Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Image credit: Atelier YokYok, Icebergs, site-specific installation for Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Atelier YokYok, The Cube, steel and red paint, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
The Cube is an anamorphic 3-dimensional form that appears to be a solid cube when viewed from a certain angle. Whether perceived as a single piece or multiple fragments of a whole, this large scale sculpture arouses curiosity through its optical play/illusion and physical engagement with the viewer.
Image credit: Atelier YokYok, The Cube, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Image credit: Atelier YokYok, The Cube, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Image credit: Atelier YokYok, The Cube, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Image credit: Jardins de Marqueyssac, Vezac, Dordogne
Hongtao Zhou, Take a Seat, installation, steel chairs, 2019.
Take a Seat consists of playful, fantastical chairs inspired by a world of lush vegetation whose curves, unusual yet functional, which treat you to a contemplative break. As soon as you accept the invitation to sit in one of the chairs, you’ll become captivated by the beauty of the spectacle of greenery in the valley that is displayed before your eyes.
Hongtao Zhou, Take a Seat, installation, steel chairs, 2019.
Hongtao Zhou, Take a Seat, installation, steel chairs, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
A site-specific installation, Qui Arrose La Terre, leads visitors in a pilgrimage through the grounds collecting lines from a poem written with found objects like stones and branches from the garden. The poem is commissioned from a pen pal of Lee’s, the poet Caroline Dufour from Montreal, Canada. Though they have never met in person, over the years they have written each other into the nearness of distance, living a continent apart, but close in heart.
While some materials are ephemeral and might fade over time, others might ask the visitor to reconstitute them. Referencing and connoting aspects of pilgrimage sites, where the imprints remain from the pilgrims’ comings and goings, pointing to an index of their personhood - ultimately the aura of memory and time persists.
Phrases from poem: QUI ARROSE LA TERRE, 2019
by Caroline Dufour.
presque rien
juste un arbre au milieu du jardin
et pourtant tout est dit
entre ce qui s’accroche
et tout ce qui en tombe
et ce soir la pluie
qui arrose la terre
presque rien
juste un ciel qui se donne à mourir
et qui change à tout vent
comme nos corps de chair
et nos amours vivants
et ce matin la neige
qui ne restera pas
presque rien
juste un cœur et pourtant
tout y est
pour y prendre le jour
et y danser le monde
et bien sûr la nuit
trouvera son chemin
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
Summer Lee, Qui Arrose la Terre, site-specific installation, engraved stone, ink, feathers, found objects and natural ephemera, Jardins de Marqueyssac, 2019.
At the end of the installation, visitors are invited to take a leaf which contains the first line of the poem written on each one, thereby allowing the poem to being again as it is taken up by its new owner.
Boris Labbé, Kyrielle, video installation (10 mins loop), animation and sound : by Boris Labbé, EMCA 2011, Watercolor on paper, 285 originals drawings, 42 x 30 cm. Composition on computer.
Kyrielle is a 10-minute HD video installation by Boris Labbé that comments on themes of loneliness, encounters and conflicts between individuals. Using vivid colors superimposed on abstract figures, this digital work addresses the aforementioned concepts in a playful, improvised and jubilant tableau. The result is a visual story taking place in moments of chaos, mathematical loops and palindromes.
Image credit: Boris Labbé, 2019.
Image credit: Boris Labbé, 2019.
Image credit: Jardins Suspendus de Marqueyssac, Dordogne