\u00ab Nous sommes les enfants d\u2019un monde d\u00e9vast\u00e9, qui s\u2019essaient \u00e0 rena\u00eetre dans\u00a0un monde \u00e0 cr\u00e9er. Apprendre \u00e0 devenir humain est la seule radicalit\u00e9 \u00bb<\/em>\u00a0(Nous sommes les enfants d’un monde d\u00e9vast\u00e9, qui tentent de rena\u00eetre dans un monde \u00e0 cr\u00e9er. Apprendre \u00e0 devenir humain est la seule radicalit\u00e9) Raoul Vaneigheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt the Drawing Lab, Karine Rougier explores her worlds in new ways. She plays with scale and media, blurring the boundaries of reality and fiction. First with graphite on paper, then more familiar thanks to the colors of gouache and acrylic, each drawing is a profusion of details, icons and attributes borrowed from all the world’s civilizations. The practice of drawing has always been present in the artist’s work. The profusion of details encourages us to approach and explore all their meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this fluid exhibition, in which water and bodily fluids are linked, Karine Rougier revisits and gives new life to these ancient images, as if to protect ourselves from the terrifying reality of the world, in order to open our hearts to magic, tenderness, but also to make the monsters and invisible worlds speak. The artist also addresses the universal character of the embrace, of breastfeeding, the embrace of bodies as a source of love and personal or collective energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drawing leaves the paper and comes to life in two short films made with Val\u00e9rie Pelet. Produced with the help of the M\u00e9c\u00e8nes du Sud production grant at the Centre de Conservation et de Ressources (CCR) of the Mucem in Marseille, the short films feature playing cards and divinatory cards. These actions symbolically bring to life the playing cards of the different centuries, carefully classified and archived in the shelves of the CCR in Marseille. The duo questions the aesthetic approach of the gestures that stage the very device of the archiving and the gesture of the game, the role of chance that one tries in vain to control. On land, in the water, the drawing and the films of Karine Rougier and Val\u00e9rie Pelet play with the elements up to the stars and the gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In her exhibition Karine Rougier has also formulated two invitations. First of all, Stephen Ellcock, image collector, writer and researcher, notably the author of books from which the artist often draws images.\u00a0Stephen Ellcock has selected images that echo Karine Rougier’s work, thus reversing the usual order of the artist’s work. Having in common a passion for cosmology, illuminated manuscripts, alchemy, magical texts and more generally everything that has to do with the mysterious and esoteric, it is therefore quite natural that the dialogue is born between them, like a cosmic dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karine Rougier, a teacher at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, has also invited the students to “tell their stories in small form” through the figure of the playing card and the divinatory card. This invitation will take the form of drawn and photographed slides projected in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ab Nous qui d\u00e9sirons sans fin \u00bb<\/em> is a dive into drawing, an invitation to play, pick a card and read a new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSteven Vandeporta
<\/strong>Director of artistic projects and coordinator of the exhibition of the Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 20 \u00b7 March 31 2023 Vip preview, by invitation, on Thursday, January 19 Public opening on Saturday, January 21, 2023 \u00ab Nous qui d\u00e9sirons sans fin \u00bb\u00a0(We who desire endlessly) is the title of Karine Rougier‘s solo exhibition at Drawing Lab. Distinguished by the Drawing Now Prize in 2022, and presented by espace \u00e0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6411,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6416","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.espace-avendre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}