Land Scopes

A title that encapsulates the multifaceted dimension of our project. A title in the form of a suitcase word that gives voice to its double reality, its double materiality: that of the natural or urban landscape correlated with that of the scopic impulse. It is around this duality that we have structured and conceived our curation and paced our choice of works and artists. Our starting point was an observation: human beings are beings of language, inextricably linked to the function of the gaze. And one who passionately devours the world through his gaze, finding himself defenseless in the face of the desire to see. With our artists, we bring this impulse into play through motif, linking the landscape to the scopic. And we ask ourselves how, by what magic, with what tools, through what processes, the creative artist brings about this link. This is why, from a reality transfigured by Mario Picardo's pop chromatic range, to Coline Ramonet-Bonis's hybrid eco-systems, from Silvio Mildo's flamboyant, harshly cut nature, to Amélie Bernard's lines of welded brazed metal volumes, through Liam Sy Paquemar's hybrid forms, Aurélien Finance's suspended planters, Margot Pietri's artificial landscape and Andrew Erdos's molten elements, we make visible the fractures that create links. Like so many Land_Scopes.