Until June 25th, Lame Gallery in Marseille is showing an exhibition featuring the works of two artists looking at fragments of bodies, Céline Ravier with ‘Regard’ or Gaze, and Raffaello Ferone with ‘Moon Landscape’.
Object little a – the gaze
This work is the outcome of some personal reflection on the notion of the ‘gaze’ as an object of desire. A gaze is neither the eye as a sensory organ nor vision itself, but is an abstract object serving as the medium of desire for the other. Lacan calls it object little-a. It is difficult to get to grips with the notion of gaze as object little-a, but these images are an attempt to represent its unpresentable nature. Unpresentable in that object little-a cannot be seen. It is elusive and can only be identified in the form of fragments of the body (the gaze).
Moon Landscape
A long time ago, I was walking in the Alps. We had been walking all day then stopped off in a refuge for the night. We looked up at the sky, contemplating the stars before going to bed. There was a full moon shining up in the sky and illuminating the nocturnal landscape. But what we saw wasn’t the real landscape: the pale light was like a fine, very accurate pencil sketching only the contours of the mountains, rocks and lakes. That image has never left me. I wanted to create an imaginary landscape with brushes of light against a plain black canvas, just as the moon had done, with shapes emerging from a living body, only to escape and come back to life in a different form.
EXHIBITION
Céline Ravier & Raffaello Ferone
From April 28th to June 25th, 2016
Galerie Lame
2, quai de la Joliette
13002 Marseille
France
http://www.galerie-lame.co
http://www.celineravier.com
