In Paris, Galerie Myriam Bouagal has opened its year end exhibition with the work of Corinne Mariaud. It will run until December 24th, showcasing a selection of images from different series, including “Désordre” and “Climax”.
Natural disarray.
“Suspended. Sprawled. Crushed. Slumped. Torn apart. Flattened. Slouched…
Corinne Mariaud gives the male body some rough treatment in this series.
Regardless of whether the surroundings around them are concrete (the city) or abstract (neutral) backdrop, these scenes of chronic exhaustion always evoke the colossal weight of modern-day burdens.
It is as if tiredness and disorder have shot the men down, a bullet of drowsiness having knocked it out of them, their bodies condemned to irrepressible exhaustion and an uncontrollable need to retreat into oblivion.
There are traces of former battles etched out in the choreography of their fall, and the evocation of an urgent, visceral, vital need for new strength to face what is to come.
The twisted, crushed bodies are placed anachronistically in their urban environment – against a wall, on a pavement or in a play park – and we can guess the day-to-day grind of work, family life, solitude, other people, transport, monotony, tedium, refusal, submission, surrender… until nature, which despite a visible flight towards parallel, paradoxical worlds, regains the upper hand and asserts its right: the right to relaxation, to privacy, to dream, to childhood, to dance, to travel, maybe even to eroticism and to love.”
Cécile Helleu
EXHIBITION
Corinne Mariaud
From November 27th to December 24th, 2015
galerie Myriam Bouagal
20 rue du Pont aux Choux
75003 Paris
France
http://www.myriambouagalgalerie.com
