From March 24 through April 24, 2017, Santo Amor’s outside the walls gallery is presenting, in a private apartment in the 16th arrondissement in Paris, the Merveilles (Wonders) project, work where fine art photographer Magali Lambert offers a contemporary interpretation of a European cabinet of curiosities. She explores the relationship of man to the products he produces, forgets, abandons, which she reanimates in playful, poetic, and comical assemblages, with a particularly inquisitive humor.
The dawn of Merveilles begin with the bric-a-brac of the curious, the antiques hunters, the ramblers, and the antique dealers. It is there, the resting place of the things that have fallen into disuse, dragged around by the backwash of a materialistic society, expeditious and in a hurry, maintaining, when faced with its objects, an attitude of almost loving inconsistence, tirelessly generating waste. It is what is obsolete and insignificant that Magali Lambert is going to pick to make up her fantasies, each time mixing them with very fine fractions of nature.
A gallant and bizarre ensemble, the delicate feather, wood and plastic treasures and plant debris evoke the arrangement of traditional European cabinets of curiosities, which would gather fossils, crucifixes, and studded charms. The artist meticulously takes her collection of trifles to Spain, France, and Belgium – three countries where wonder rooms were developed during the 17th century, time of the Baroque and Vanities .
Magali Lambert: Deux pierres, un coup (One Bird, Two Stones)
Private apartment
88, rue Michel Ange
75016 Paris
France
