Paréidolie 2017
Drawing on paper
11,5 x 8 inches
Inspiré par l'engouement récent pour les cahiers de coloriages mais aussi déçu par la qualité souvent médiocre des dessins proposés au public, Semiose éditions a eu l'envie de faire appel à des artistes confirmés pour dessiner spécialement des motifs à colorier pour les enfants et les grands enfants, évidemment !
Chaque dessin est une création originale et véhicule une histoire, un trait d'esprit, dans un goût partagé pour l'humour, l'absurde et l'imaginaire.
For the 2017 edition of Paréidolie Art fair, the Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou offers an exhibition displaying works on paper, around the concept of narration. This project presents four artists represented by the gallery - Chourouk Hriech, Julien Discrit, Valérie Mréjen, and Massinissa Selmani, with a special focus on the series "Grandmas" by Valérie Mréjen.
The narrative background is at the heart of the four artists main approach and question in their own way how a work of art can produce stories.
Massinissa Selmani?s sketches, inspired by gathered articles from newspapers, question the way news items are interpreted and staged.
In her series conceived in Douala, in December, 2016, Chourouk Hriech initiates a dialogue between the act of drawing and a thought on places, cities, populations. She shows in her way how the work of art can inscribe an anecdotal and everyday life moment in a more complex story.
Julien Discrit's works refer to memory of the territory, sites, places, and individuals. In Le masque et le miroir, He stages a Borges? short story, and transforms the act of writing in an endless source of interpretations.
Finally, Valérie Mréjen explores the language as a territory, with all kind of mediums: videos, novels, and drawings. Her series Grandmas plays with the clichés of logos, slogans and commercial images from alimentary brands products in order to recreate imaginary family stories.
Paréidolie - 26th- 27th August 2017
Château de Servières - 19 bvd Boisson - 13004 Marseille