After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Anne-Laure Wuillai moved to Nice, where she is represented by the Eva Vautier gallery.
Facing the sea, she draws up an inventory of samples, among which water, sediment and shoreline are meticulously catalogued, packaged and classified. Using established reference points, measurement systems and cartographies, she reveals the paradox of a world perceived on a human scale. Oceans come in bottles, seas in labeled plastic bags, while the sky is measured in fifty-three shades of blue.
The sculpture Terrain vague symbolizes the archetypal wave, its movement evoking the sound of the sea. The water's transparency projects the ultramarine blue reflections of a seascape onto the ground. In the form of an artificial wave for the interior, the sea comes into the home, to the point of dreaming of capturing it, seizing it entirely, until it takes over the world.
Main exhibitions at the gallery :
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Selection of works
2022 All around, water, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
2022 Origin of joy, Galerie Epi ,Ingrande-sur-loire
2022 Nouvelle Vague, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, Italy
2021 Sous le Chaos La vie, Galerie Mansard, Paris
2021 La mer à l'œuvre, Espace culturel de Port-Lympia, Nice
2021 Ecotopia - Interview, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule
2020 90° au dessus du feu, Hôtel Windsor, Nice
2020 Alive, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule
2015 Telepathy Room, SuperVue, Hôtel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine
2015 En une seconde d'inspiration, exterior facade of MAMAC and TNN, Nice
Exhibition created for the Réveillons-Nous festival organized by Irina Brook
2015 A kind of metaphor like the (planet) Earth, Paris 18ème
Exhibition realized in partnership with the association Diameter, Travelling Gallery
2015 Ici la terre, Rosalina, Nice
Group exhibitions
2022 A rose is a petinua is a mimosa, Galerie Eva vautier, Nice
2021 L'horizon, Galerie Eva Vautier Hors les Murs, La menuiserie, La Motte-Servolex
2020 Avec plaisir III, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
2020 Voila l'été, The resort, Nice
2020 Fire walk with me, Musée d'art Naif, Nice
2018 Avec plaisir II, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
2019 Nopoto, BelOeil, Nice
2019 Bâtir, villa Le Roc Fleury, Cap d'Ail
2019 La vie est un film, 109, Nice
2019 100 titles, BelOeil, Nice
2018 Avec plaisir, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
2018 La mémoire et la mer, curated by Rebecca François, Nice
2018 Private Choice, curated by Nadia Candet, Paris
2018 Une collection 5, curated by Camille Frasca, Paris
2017 Rien ne se perd.... curated by Camille Frasca, Paris
2017 Une collection, curated by Camille Frasca, Nice
2016 Un palais idéal des egos étranges, Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, Hauterives
2016 Préfiguration du palais idéal des egos étranges, Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, Hauterives
2015 Odyssée, Galerie La Marine, Nice
Exhibition organized by the Villa Arson, graduating students 2015
2014 Des corps compétents, Villa Arson Art Center, Nice
2013 Works in progress, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice
Group exhibition and curatorial work organized in partnership with Eva Vautier
2013 Manca, performance concert, MAMAC, Nice
Performance /Workshops/ Residencies
2019 Polychrome, Utopia residence, Ponte-Leccia, Haute-Corse
2018 School of Nice - From Pop Art to Happenings, Hong-Kong, French May 2018, direction of a workshop on performance as representative of the School of Nice.
2013 Avatar, workshop, École d'art de l'Université Laval, Québec, directed by Pascal Broccolichi and Julie Faubert
2012-2013, Des corps compétents, workshops, HEAD, Génève, Switzerland under the direction of Arnaud
Label Rojoux, Patrice Blouin and Christophe Kihm
2011 Fluxus concerts and performances, Performance at MoMA (Newyork City) with Ben Vautier Foires
2019 DrawingNow, Paris, Galerie Eva Vautier,
2018 ArtParis, Paris, Galerie Bertheas,
2022 Aleas, curated by Alain Jaquet, apartment exhibition with Jacque Renoir
2018 Emosophia, curated by Caterina Zevola Open Bach, Paris (with Bertrand Lanthiez)
2017 Derrière la Mer, Galerie de Beuil, Beuil (with Anne-laure Wuillai)
2021 Orées, Villa Cameline, Nice
2020 Sous la glace l'eau, Caisse d'épargne de Nice Masséna, Nice,
2020 In the presence of, Chapelle Sainte-Elisabeth, Villefranche-sur-Mer
2019 Azimuth, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, and the FRAC PACA as part of Des marches et démarches
2015, DNSEP, Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France
2013, DNAP, Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nice, France
2011, Licence III Philosophy, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
2022 All around, water, Ecological and social manifesto for the exhibition All around, water
2022 Nouvelle Vague, Exhibition catalog
2019 Ecotopia, book about the ecotopia project
2014 Ici la terre, le mémoire, Graduation thesis directed by Joseph Mouton and Thomas Golsen, Villa Arson, Nice
2014 Ici la terre, l'expédition, Co-publication for the Ici la terre project, with texts by Tristan Blumel
Biography
Benoît Barbagli born in 1988 in Nice.
He lives and works between Paris and Nice.
"Anne-Laure Wuillai asks, "Who hasn't had the impulse to take a souvenir, a fragment, home with them on a nature walk or a trip abroad? A visual artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris, she felt oppressed by the urban density of Paris and chose the Côte d'Azur for its proximity to the sea and the peaks. Here, in her chemist's laboratory-like studio at La Station in Nice, she preserves fragments of the Mediterranean taken in a wild, dreamlike, performative gesture, documented in photos. Imbued with the work of Georges Perec, who contributed to the revival of literary material by elevating lists and inventories to the level of narrative, this visual artist represented by Galerie Eva Vautier develops an approach somewhere between science, poetry and irony.
"I like to question our ways of inhabiting the world, the standards we produce to put everything on our own scale. The way we domesticate water and the sky too, elements whose immensity is nonetheless beyond us in every respect", continues the artist, who has thus chosen to force the line of classification to the point of absurdity, the better to question our ways of apprehending, categorizing and consuming our environment. In her Hyper-condionnements series, she fills a shopping cart to the brim with bags of seawater, while in her Les artificiels series, she creates furniture that sets flashy blue waves in motion, echoing clichéd images of the color of water. In an eminently poetic gesture, it declines the fifty-three shades of blue in the sky identified by Saussure for his cyanometer, one of the first meteorological instruments designed in 1789. She imagines snow globes in which plastic waste found on the shoreline dances, or postcards soaked in water, like memories taken away... but for how long? Through the grotesque, she moves away from the militant gesture to produce a work that mischievously laughs at the boxes of the mind and invites us to dream anew of our relationship with water, sky and earth, this living body.
Dreaming of sky and water
by Tanja Stojanov, 2021
External documentation
Works & editions
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