a ppr oc he 2022
November 10 – 13, 2022
Le Molière, Paris 1
solo show Caroline Rivalan
Grégory Copitet
Persona muta
Caroline Rivalan explores feminine myths and the hedonistic aspect of nature by appropriating images that she retranscribes plastically through editing operations. The images she produces in microcosms (dioramas) or macrocosms (light installation devices) mix various registers with irreverence and sarcasm. The result is a phantasmagorical universe where the feminine has a special place.
For Persona muta, the artist was interested in Professor Charcot’s patients at the Salpêtrière Hospital at the end of the 19th century. Using the images of the photographic device installed in situ by the famous neurologist, Caroline Rivalan questions this exploitation of the female body by crossing figure and madness. The manipulation of these archival images transforms the object into a subject and thus removes the authority figure that orchestrates these representations, to displace the established power relationship. It is about deconstructing the relationships of domination.
A graduate of La Esmeralda in Mexico City and the Villa Arson in Nice, Caroline Rivalan has been invited on several occasions to exhibit alongside artists such as Ben Vautier and Moo Chew Wong at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice. His work has been exhibited since 2009 in France and abroad, notably in contemporary art centers and artist-run spaces.
