LAUNDRY DAY
2
October
11
75009 , PARIS
Informations
The Big Bijou collective, composed of the artists Elvire Blanc Briand, Marion Colasse, Xiao Chen, and Juliette Même, takes over the space of the LAVOMATIC.
Here, the laundromat becomes both the setting and the subject of the exhibition: a functional, shared environment centered around a common activity – washing clothes. In this way, it recalls a contemporary form of collective laundry practices once carried out at village washhouses or along riverbanks in fair weather.
Bringing art into a non traditional setting lies at the core of their intention. By stepping outside conventional exhibition venues, Big Bijou seek to meet a broad and varied audience, whether engaged with art or not, receptive to their work or not yet often inclined toward conversation and exchange.
Artists
Marion Colasse likes to materialize the intangible, to transpose reality until her interpretation transforms it into a “jewel.” Her pieces, often produced in small series, are the translation of an experience, to which she gives multiple forms, multiple languages. Material is not an end in itself but a starting point.
“Juliette will continue, no matter what, to create. To create, which she insatiably questions with curiosity, sensitivity, and humor, transforming and transmuting the various common materials she encounters along the way, the seemingly insignificant things that inspire her and whose nature she completely alters, sublimating them through an ever-renewed process, a precise protocol that renders them precious, extraordinary.”
Florence Lehmann & Sophie Hanagarth
Xiao CHEN is a multidisciplinary visual artist bron in China, lives and works in France.
The contrast between her childhood memories and her daily life, along with the vast differences between the cultural and political contexts of her country of origin and the one in which she now lives, has profoundly shaped her vision of the world.
Elvire is interested in jewelry as a social object, in notions of artifice, mirage, and surface, in beauty, the poetic potential of materials, and in marginality.
She works with materials with relish, wanting their subtle characteristics to be perceptible. The body is often involved: it provides scale and allows for a more physical relationship with the artwork.
She works with materials with relish, wanting their subtle characteristics to be perceptible. The body is often involved: it provides scale and allows for a more physical relationship with the artwork.
