Anne-Laure Wuillai
The artist translates the fluctuations, the alternating forms of ice, liquid or vapor while designating a totality. Transparency is measured by the transparency of the material where it is deposited. The container and the content cross in a game of mirror and the color is formulated as a simple hypothesis. Everything is captured with extreme precision, in an almost clinical gesture. Nothing disturbs a research that is always exercised in a fragile balance, in a precarious state when the slightest deviation would jeopardize the experience.
Each work is based on a moment of visibility for a silent meditation and even austere if it were not marked by this fluidity, at the moment when the material drowns happily in the color. Water is offered to us here in all its potentialities but, above all, the artist manages to seize its pure essence, from the formlessness from which it comes.
Scientific rigor and technical perfection coincide in an intense poetry, a rigorous reflection, to reveal the soul of things. […]
Anne-Laure Wuillai’s work does not describe anything, it defines the material. But perhaps it says something else, something more distant, something more serious. What Bachelard stated thus: “The knowledge of the real is a light which always projects some shadows somewhere”.
This darker part is not to be found in dreams but in the realities of the world. These sculptures-objects thus display the signs, or rather the stigmata of a threatened sea. The artist confides: “I like to think, with a touch of black humor, that one day there would be so much packaging in our oceans, that it would end up packing the entire sea. This water, it is a question of collecting it, of possessing it, as if through it we were taking over the world. Reality then confronts the dream. And it is in this interstice that the work is elaborated.
Michel Gathier (extract)
Anne-Laure Wuillai
Born in 1987 in Versaille
Lives and works in Nice
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2016
Carte blanche sonore, interview with Laurie Etourneau and Janoé Vulbeau 59’59” broadcast for Motifs Pluriels
Radio Campus Lille
2015
Installation 06.03.15 for the association Les Nuits de Pleine Lune
La Mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris 11è
2014
These copies that we form, DNSAP exhibition
Left Gallery, ENSBA Paris 6è
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Voilà l’été, La Station et la ville de Nice, Le 109, Pôle de cultures contemporaines, Nice 1 mètre de distance, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
“Fire, Walk With Me !”, Anatole Jakovski Museum of Naive Art, Nice
Under the ice, the water, Collectif PALAM, com. EntreDeux, with Lélia Decourt and Rebecca François, Caisse d’Épargne Masséna branch, Nice
“In the presence of…”, PALAM, Benoît Barbagli, Tom Barbagli, Omar Rodriguez Sanmartin, Florent Testa, Sainte-Elisabeth Chapel, Villefranche-sur-Mer
With Pleasure #2, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
2019
Azimuth
Benoît Barbagli, Tom Barbagli, Evan Bourgeau, Camille Franch-Guerra, Omar Rodriguez Sanmartin, Florent Testa, Anne-Laure Wuillai
Eva Vautier Gallery, 2 rue Vernier, Nice
2018 / 2019
With Pleasure
Group exhibition with the artists of the Eva Vautier Gallery
Eva Vautier Gallery, 2 rue Vernier, Nice
2018
Nopoto
Collective exhibition on an invitation from Matériaux Mixtes
Atelier Patrick Frega, 3 rue Martin Seytour, Nice
2018
Wild thoughts
Group exhibition on an invitation from No Made
Curated by Florent Testa and Stéphanie Laubry
Garden of the Villa Roc Fleury, Cap-d’Ail
2018
Trà e Stelle
Collective exhibition on an invitation from La Station and Utopia Artists’ residency
Carpenters of Corsica, Piedigriggio, Haute-Corse
2018
100 TITLES
Commissariat mixed materials association
Bel Oeil, 12 rue Emmanuel Philibert, Nice
2018
Notice of high costs
Collective exhibition on an invitation from La Station, curated by Hanna Baudet
Le Suquet des Art(iste)s, 7 rue Saint-Dizier, Cannes
2018
Tanks
As part of Curiosity(s), organized by the association Botox(s)
Tom Barbagli, Evan Bourgeau, Camille Franch Guerra,
Igor Marchal, Florent Testa, Caroline Trucco, Anne-Laure Wuillai
Workshop 28, Vieux Chemin de Gairaut, Nice
2017
OPEN HOUSE WORKSHOP 28
Igor Marchal, Florent Testa, Tom Barbagli, Anne-Laure Wuillai
Workshop 28, Vieux Chemin de Gairaut, Nice
2017
A COLLECTION #4
Group exhibition on an invitation by Marie-France Frasca
Curated by Camille Frasca and Antoine Py
Villa Riviera Cottage, Nice
2017
Elementary, the rule of the game
Tom Barbagli, Charlie Chine, Jacqueline Gainon, Anne-Laure Wuillai, Agnès Vitani
Eva Vautier Gallery, 2 rue vernier, Nice
2017
Behind the sea
Anne-Laure Wuillai and Benoît Barbagli
Gallery of Beuil, Place de l’église, Beuil
2016
OPEN HOUSE WORKSHOP 28
Igor Marchal, Florent Testa, Tom Barbagli, Anne-Laure Wuillai
Workshop 28, Vieux Chemin de Gairaut, Nice
2015
Dear Objects #2
Curated by the Tridécagone collective
With Frédéric Vincent and Cannelle Tanc
Immanence art space, Paris 15è
2015
Dear Objects #1
Curated by the Tridécagone collective
Refectory of the Cordeliers, Paris 6è
2013
France in copy
Retrospective of an itinerant trip in North America
Exhibition realized under the supervision of Marie-José Burki
Left Gallery, ENSBA Paris 6è
2013
Randomness of sets
With the participation of Djamel Tatah and a selection of students from his workshop
GAC, Contemporary Art Group of Annonay
2011
Tatah Yoyo
Exhibition organized by the students of Djamel Tatah and Giuseppe Penone
Right Gallery, ENSBA Paris 6è
RESIDENCES
2018
UTOPIA Artists’ residency, with Verana Costa
Carpenters of Corsica, Piedigriggio, Haute-Corse
SCHOLARSHIPS
2014
Grant from theOffice Franco-Québécois pour la Jeunesse
Study tour in Montreal, for the Looking Forward Biennial
2013
Colin Lefranc Grant
Exchange program at the Université du Québec à Montréal
PUBLICATIONS
2015
Exhibition catalog Dear Objects, “To be noted in the agenda
Text written by Sacha Alexandre Pevak, Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions
2015
Graduates’ Catalogue 2014, Beaux-Arts de Paris editions
2013
Exhibition catalog Random sets
Text written by Guitemie Maldonado, Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions
TRAININGS
2014
DNSAP, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Djamel Tatah workshop, theoretical follow-up Didier Semin
2nd Cycle (September 2012 to November 2014)
2013
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal
Academic Exchange Program (January to June 2013)
2012
DNAP, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Dominique Gauthier and Djamel Tatah workshops
1st Cycle (September 2009 to June 2012)
2008
Double Degree II Plastic and Applied Arts
Preparatory class for the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan – Lycée Rive Gauche
University of Toulouse II Le Mirail
(September 2006 to September 2008)
