MOURRONS LES OISEAUX. 28 June to 15 August 2013 , Sandra D.Lecoq and her guest Virginie Le Touze.
MOURRONS LES OISEAUX. 28 June to 15 August 2013 , Sandra D.Lecoq and her guest Virginie Le Touze. A graduate of the Villa Arson in 1996, she lives and works in Nice. Recalling the analytical gestures of pictorial deconstruction initiated by Supports-Surfaces, she braids and sews multicoloured fabrics that take the place of the stretcher and the canvas; from this arise oblong, sexual and phallic forms that spread across the floor, sometimes over the walls, like so many paint stains, diurnal pollutions of an amused thought. The long, meticulous making of her work comes up against the vehemence of its object, bringing out its paradoxes and internal tensions and suggesting that it is indeed the unconscious of “the soul of the wild female” that is at work. Virginie Le Touze was born in Nice in 1969, where she lives and works. Videos, photographs, performances and installations coexist in her works, across a palette of poetry, memories, quotations and allusions to black-and-white cinema, cabaret, music hall and the love song. Generally speaking, whatever medium she adopts, Virginie Le Touze’s work is extremely meticulous and precise. This method entails the need to redo things a great many times, until the structural effects are obtained through which the artist presents her universe, a dreamlike quality at once poignant and detached. The themes of Virginie Le Touze’s art have the charm of obviousness, covering every register, from the popular to the lyrical. It is the most essential things of life that set her inspiration turning.
