The Galerie Eva Vautier is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Caroline Rivalan, Persona muta.
The Galerie Eva Vautier is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Caroline Rivalan, Persona muta. This project receives the support of the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques). Caroline Rivalan has explored female myths and the hedonistic aspect of nature, crossing figure and madness. The images she produces in microcosms (dioramas) or in luminous installation devices allow her to cross gravity and lightness. View of the exhibition Persona muta, Carolina Rivalan, April 2022, Galerie Eva Vautier, Photo © François Fernandez The making and reception of the images produced during these experiments are questioned in L’invention de l’hystérie by Georges Didi-Huberman. Professor Charcot’s Tuesday lessons made public and “spectacular” the hypnotic performances of these interned women, in which he staged the pathological body, the unleashed feminine. Caroline Rivalan’s research project revolves around the figure of madness and the instrumentalisation of women. Working on these archival images makes it possible to transform the object into a subject, and thus to remove the authoritative figure who orchestrates these representations, in order to shift the established power relationship. It is a matter of deconstructing relations of domination. Catalogue of the exhibition Persona muta. Watch the video
