Thursday, March 13 – Sunday, March 30
The Water’s ritual, Rishi’s upanayanam
Agnès GUILLAUME
Room Gaillard, 2 rue Saint Pierre
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 1pm to 7pm
Sunday from 2pm to 6pm
Free access
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The work:
Bengali ‘s impressions, a night on the banks of the river Ganga. In the background of the village of Bhadreswar, the cosmic river flows and seeps into the village and the forest in small trickles. Tomorrow will be the ceremony’s upanayanam for young Rishi. He will grieve for his childhood for enter in a new phase of life. He will receive the pilgrim’s staff and the prince’s robe. The community accompanies and surrounds him in this symbolic passage.
The night before, I filmed the women collecting the sacred water in copper jars. The fire is lit to summon the elements and receive their blessings. Like asparas of water, earth, air and fire, their songs mingle softly with the sounds of the forest and the resonating conch shell. The scene reminded me of a tale described in mystical Hindu poems. It surprised and delighted me so much that I wanted to pay tribute to it.
The artist:
Véronique Rizzo lives and works in Marseille. She has been exhibiting in France and abroad since 1997.
Véronique Rizzo’s practice follows the original path, of a pictoriality that explores as much the narratives and territories of the object “painting”, as those of the experimental video movie. The instability of her motives blows up the obvious aims of the styles, assuming their dialectical contradictions. Her reflexive approach on history of forms makes them vibrate in the hope of an utopian romantic projection, which would be a radical return to sensation. The hybridity of his work is based on the unanticipated coexistences of abstractions, traces of multiple shocks of images, as well as hermetic fictions. Her work focuses on the representation of hallucinatory and ambiguous spaces that act, as revealing of a psycho-sensory relation of consciousness to spatiality, and to image as environmental space. The color, diluted in the echoes of the sound, spreads its materiality and the movement of the forms immerses the spectator in a salutary hypnosis.
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