Emma Laine, untitled ("cocktail effect"), 2010
Photo: André Morin
Courtesy Triple V, Paris.
An empty room, empty of furniture ... Against the walls, only a few shelves, rare documents, placed on the ground, pinned. By land, residues different ... In the middle of the room stands a sculpture, mixture of organic materials, plant, resinous, forming strata ....
strange feeling, between abandonment, waiting ... and latency
Emma Laine in "cocktail effect" introduces us to his workshop, rather, photos of his workplace.
"cocktail effect" is part of a long tradition. Indeed, many representations of workshops in the history of Western art. These performances often took workshops obvious value, came to testify of joining their time, or less likely to report the progress of his time, and this engraving by Alberti, where the study of anatomy evokes medicine and its challenges. Emma Laine is not so far from this approach.
Alberti "academy painters"
documents lying around, scattered, a book of Goethe, phrenology board, photographs of a case of hysteria made by Charcot, an ancestor of computer and another photograph reproducing the fourth state of matter: the Plasma ... In this, Emma Laine joined this tradition of representation workshop but by establishing a chronology of the Enlightenment that would lead to today.
These documents obviously part of an archeology of creation, and remains, the remains of ancient exhibits that live in the studio ... work in progress, already exploited, or even like this sculpture, intended to be ephemeral ...
Show a workshop directed to participate in what is, the mental landscape of the artist.
Emma Laine, untitled ("cocktail effect"), 2010
Photo: André Morin
Courtesy Triple V, Paris.
To do this, Emmanuelle Lainé choses to put ourselves at the center of this workshop, it is presented in the form of panoramic photographs are enlarged to human scale to cover a large part of the exhibition space. It puts us in the center of the mental landscape, an effect reinforced by the fact that the sculpture in the center of the workshop. Space perception is reversed. We do look more around the sculpture, it surrounds us, surrounds us with his presence, stares at us ...
Would it not about world revolution, already disappeared?
Emma Laine appears to establish a similarity between an artist's studio and laboratory science: a place for study, research, speculation, too, think the world at present and also to the future ...
Many of his artistic works have to do with the scientific world, with works like "Goldfingia," inspired by a worm water, siponcle dating back to the Cambrian or even as "Extraballe" sphere polyurethane elastomer virtues bouncing, n ' at'elle not patented a work "The Discoplan" as the first Frisbee removable?
These speculations have brought some scientists to "fiction" to understand the world ... Emma Laine asks in his work, this part of Utopia, which houses the science ... It was a time when science claimed to satisfy or express the wildest dreams ... The positivist ideology, faith in science irrigating a Western thought, faith in the future, progress ... Just think of the first books to advance, Jules Verne, for example ... Then quickly came the disillusionment, the Nazi extermination camps, "Hiroshima" confidence in the big modernist idealism gradually became extinct, confidence in the future as a consequence ...
Emma Laine, untitled ("cocktail effect"), 2010
Photo: Andre Morin
Courtesy Triple V, Paris.
"cocktail effect" reflects the years of utopias where avant-garde artists like science, thought change lives, change the world.
The workshop would it then this place is just the latest utopian refuge, a place of refuge where they could still consider a heterotopia? Far less is safer. Emma Laine testify - also the disappearance of this specific inherited a classic design increasingly replaced by a nomadic practice, to "workshop exploded" as Peter would say Buraglio.
"cocktail effect" leaves us with a wasteland where nothing sensible would last, like this sculpture ephemeral.
Emma Laine
Effect cocktail
January 07, 2011-February 5, 2011 at
Triple V
24 rue Louise Weiss
75013 Paris France
info@triple-v.fr
www.triple-v.fr
Tel: +33 (0) 1 45 84
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