RUINS ( 2022-)
Julie Calbert applies to her images a process analogous to mountain erosion. These are altered chemically, analog and digital.Sampling, extraction and sequencing are all scientific gestures integrated by the artist that allow her a translation of the landscape. Thus, reliefs, ridges and ditches reappear on the flat surface of sensitive papers and only fragments of the original data remain. Like these geographical coordinates of the old forges of Montauban which are transcribed and manipulated virtually to create new topographies and then exposed on photosensitive surfaces. To these images, whose darkness echoes the coal and metal formerly present on the site, Julie Calbert associates sculptures, artifacts and gleaned objects. This installation, inspired by the historical and geological context of the place, evokes its memory and its horizons, between sensitive materiality and virtual reality. By exploring, on her scale and from her medium, the movement of time on the things around us, Julie Calbert proposes a poetic form of ruin. Ruins that are named by the Belgian philosopher Isabelle Stengers as the «technologically sophisticated rubble of our dreams».
This project was commissioned by CACLB and part of it was later shown at Contretype
*silver gelatin prints / RA4 prints/ wallpaper / riso prints / ceramics / scorias / sculpted glass