Divinités, fleurs, plis et replis, Les Bains Douches


Divinités, fleurs, plis et replis, june 2021.
View of the group exhibition at Les Bains-Douches in Alençon (61),
curator Sophie Vinet, photograph © Romain Darnaud.

Probably, nothing happens—except for a certain tranquility that has settled into the abysses of the everyday. Alice, Arthur, Camille, Jade, Léa, Sosthène, and Thomas meet in enclosed spaces sealed by a certain melancholy. Peonies take shape through imprint and collage. Fruits and a can are seen through a plastic bag or the pocket of a garment. The body has withdrawn from a shirt or a pair of wrinkled trousers that have been replicated and whose surface has been fixed. Faces have disappeared from the frame, hidden in hands or turned outward. The brightness of the computer screen becomes damp in contact with the plexiglass. A virtual hand grazes interfaces. Figures appear and double.

No matter its linearity, time has been overturned, and reality, in what it holds of the most anecdotal, has filled itself with memories—where it once tended to fade away in the rhythm of life.

Bliss, excerpt from a text by Fiona Vilmer, exhibition catalogue Divinités, fleurs, plis et replis,
Les Bains-Douches edition, by Sophie Vinet, design Martha Salimbeni.


 
© Sosthène Baran 2026