Recyclage / Surcyclage

Some artists improvise themselves as archaeologists of the present by composing works from materials that preserve the trace of social, cultural, economic use to make them a precious, even spiritual object. Waste then allows a historical reading of our global consumption.
This year, Carte Blanche is given to the artist Anita Molinero, who is taking over part of the exhibition space. During her punk years, she composed her first sculptures by bringing together recycled objects and materials. Through forty sculptures, the 25 selected French and international artists present works designed from recycled materials and make us aware of the direct or indirect impact of overconsumption on our future life. Over the years, the scrap object became an artistic material in its own right, and won its letters of nobility. While it sometimes maintains its status and values as waste, raw and worn, it can also disappear completely in cheerful and colorful compositions. Quite early on, she chose to bring to forms the power of the irreversibility of the gesture and to do so she adopted plastic and a series of toxic materials that she cut, burned (using a flamethrower), lacerated, sculpted. She thus models the plastic as she sees fit, although the part of randomness and chance is always present in the final result.

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