About the work of Maria Ritz: email
The 14 Stations of the Kitchen by Maria Ritz uses the language of culinary
tasks as markers punctuating the physical space of the gallery. She
transforms the buttons of a blender to give them the material qualities
and the permanence of commemorative plates. Distributed in a regular path
on the wall, the engraved verbs acquire a weight and the attribute of
sacred words. As in the Catholic iconography, the 14 Stations symbolize
the idea of sacrifice, redemption and rebirth. They elevate daily
nurturing chores into a ritual inexorably linked to preservation,
alteration or destruction. Outside the inner sanctum of the kitchen,
Maria’s words address the viewer directly, and this displacement gives
them a new authority. Verbs like “MIX” “BLEND” or “LIQUIFY” become
associated with the pressure of assimilation or homogenization in the face
of displacement.
About the work of Danielle Sauvé: email
Danielle Sauvé’s installation The Cartographers associates the migratory
quest to the virgin page preceding the re-creative process of all new
beginnings. The ensemble is about the tension between erasing and
renewing, the alterable and the attached, vibrancy and absence. Layers of
velum on the skeletal drawing-tables are penetrated by light to create the
conditions for the appearance of the snail’s journey. Danielle is
interested in the speculative aspects of exile, those moments of
expectation - when nothing is fixed yet, when all is still maintained
between here and else where, before and now, the real and the imaginary.
“Snails are my discrete cartographers, carriers of essential instruments
of adaptation. Their ephemeral traces a distant memory.”
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