Graphzines & zines / 2015
Jet Lag 41 - Calendos
Gwenn Mérel
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Calendos présente vingt-quatre phases de la Lune, à la fois familières et intrigantes, entre calendrier lunaire et vulgaire camembert.
Gwenn Mérel cherche à recréer l’émotion générée par les expériences ténues du monde, de matérialiser l’enchantement d’instants insaisissables. Elle enregistre, filtre, diffuse une poétique quotidienne. Son travail oscille entre sublimation de fragiles phénomènes et questionnement du rapport entre l’homme et les espaces grandioses. Observatrice discrète, contemplant le monde sans s’y plonger, elle utilise l’installation, la vidéo, la projection de diapositives, le dessin ou encore la sculpture comme moyen de capter le presquerien. Au-delà de l’observation de phénomènes, ces actions contemplatives rendent manifeste le manque d’attention induit par l’habitude et le devoir quotidien de la productivité.
Calendos presents twenty-four lunar phases, that are both familiar and intriguing. They look like a lunar calendar and a simple pie chart at the same time.
Gwenn Mérel tries to recreate the emotion produced by the passing encounters of the world and to give material form to the charm of elusive moments. She records, filters and transmits what is poetic in everyday life. Her work veers between the sublimation of delicate phenomena and an inquiry into the relationship between man and magnificent places. She is a discreet observer and contemplates the world while remaining on the sideline and uses art installations, video, slide projections, drawings and sculpture as a way to capture the “almost nothingness”.
But these contemplative actions go beyond the mere observation of phenomena and underline the lack of intention caused by habit and the daily obligation of productivity.
Jet Lag is a collection dedicated to drawing, collage, photo-montage and other graphic experiments. Each artist is given free rein for each Jet Lag -they have to take the 24 available pages and make them their own. Each Jet Lag season is made of 10 Jet Lag
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ISBN 978-2-917427-81-1
