Aurora PALLET
The forces in presence
03.02 - 24.03.2018
After having worked on the Augurs and their representation in certain Renaissance paintings, Aurore Pallet now calls for the staging of visions. Of these hallucinations or apparitions only a few traces remain, the restraint of characters waiting. Linger in the places of these ancient landscapes to explore them, the artist moves there to meet those who lived there, grasping the attitude that the effect of their vision provoked, in an active image.
Buried under multiple layers of glaze, sometimes at the edge of the monochrome or a more formal abstraction, the presences that inhabit Aurore Pallet's paintings are barely perceptible: they are like a resonance.
The great proximity with the original figure immediately places these paintings on the side of the double: nocturnal doubles, floating, worried by their own disintegration. "There is obviously something ghostly in this work, but I realized that the ghost was not the shadow of these paintings that would return today. It is rather mine, wandering in these places.
Angels and demons that once populated these scenes, Aurore Pallet retains the idea of "genius of place"(1). The forces that inhabit these paintings through the ages are thus those of a mental image that, below the language, only outcrops the surface of the visible and which can only be approached and observed from afar.
(1) In the religion of ancient Rome, a genius loci was the protective spirit of a place.
