Magali Lambert - Les vies secrètes de l'ordinaire

Exhibition

Magali Lambert — Les vies secrètes de l’ordinaire

Exhibition from June 23 to Octobre 21, 2023

Villa Pérochon – Niort

64 rue Paul-Francois Proust
79 061 Niort

Opening on June 23, 5:30 pm

Guided tour by the artist Saturday, June 24, 2:30 pm

Tuesday to Saturday, 1:30 to 6:30 pm

Free entrance

On the threshold of this exhibition, we could indulge in a Prévert-style inventory. But here, ordinary things have a life, and not just any life.

The life that Magali Lambert breathes into them.

Let’s start by saying that the artist is a gleaner. She gathers, preserves and safeguards what we objects we no longer want, discarded, forgotten. Guardian of these relics, after a mission that might be described as salvation from an inescapable disappearance, she gives them a new existence, diverting them from their original use and identity.

As guardian of these relics, after a mission that could be described as salvation from inevitable disappearance, she gives them a new existence, diverting them from their original use and identity. In short, she turns destinies upside down and opens up breathtaking fields of possibility.

With them, she conspires unlikely schemes, buffoonish, beautiful or nightmarish. A demiurge of strange resurrections, she brings the dead back to life and makes the transition from death to life.

Whether in her cabinets of curiosities, her settings of everyday objects or faded taxidermy, she composes visual exquisite cadavers, incongruous objets-valises, subversions and coincidences.

Magali Lambert also mixes media – photography, drawing, engraving, installation and sculpture – to create her own works of art, installation and sculpture, creating works in which time, space, the real and the fake, the dead and the living and the living collide. His hybridizations, his curious chimeras, his encounters with objects or animals and animals give rise to a whimsical, poetic universe. In this way, she reveals unsuspected to bring out their symbolic dimension and create a new visual vocabulary. new visual vocabulary.

The ordinary has secret lives, unsuspected beauties beyond death and oblivion. Magali Lambert takes us with her into worlds that can be constantly reinvented reinvented by the shift in our gaze.