Embrasser le spectre, deployment n°11, details, degré Est, Frac Lorraine, Metz — FR, Marine Frœliger, 2022, extract from ourobouros, elements for constellations in situ (2012 — ∞).
Following on from her exhibition at the Octave Cowbell Gallery in Metz
in late 2022, the artist invites us here to engage in a paradoxical meditative experiment. Drawing on her experience as a facilitator, she invites visitors to take the time to ‘inhabit’ the Degré Est
space. Let’s take off our shoes, settle comfortably onto the rugs and take our time. How much time do we have?
Perhaps enough to wait for a volcano to erupt, or to bide our time whilst it lies dormant? A long stretch of time that the artist likes to use to evoke her practice, which lies at the intersection of observation, creation and transmission.
In this project, which began in 2012 and which she calls Ouroboros, Marine Froeliger draws on her collection of elements (photographs, embroidery, drawings, photocopies, screenshots, sound works, sculptures…) and presents new assemblages, including meditation mats’ laid out on the floor.
Certain images recur endlessly, each time remodelled and reconfigured, just as the cycles of nature repeat themselves.
A snake biting its own tail – a symbol known as ‘Ouroboros’ – has become the title of this ‘living archive’ developed by the artist.
At the Frac, we will be able to literally immerse ourselves in these images and sounds, and rethink the prisms through which we perceive the world.
These prisms stem from science, art or esoteric practices – all of which serve as palliatives for living in physical and digital worlds that have become unliveable.
Fanny Gonella,
director Frac Lorraine, Metz, France,
Februar 2023
Sound composition linked here :
— laterrretrrremble (theearthquakkkes),
20’41, looped, not that loud
exhibition view, collages, pictures and drawings on meditation mats, engraved yoga blocks, covered mattresses, photogram, wood sculptures.
pictures by Andreas Lejona
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