About the exhibition
P O U R R I T U R E (travail en cours)
This exhibition is part of a broader research and experimentation process developed by the artist during her residency in Québec.
“Some time ago, mold appeared in my apartment—first on the ceiling, then on the walls, and finally on my clothes.
It felt like an intrusion into my intimate space.
The experience made me go through a range of intense, contradictory emotions:
I almost resented my environment for taking on a morbid appearance.
So I decided to shift my perspective, to take distance by moving closer—in other words, by zooming in.
I found beauty where disgust and fear once seemed inevitable.
Later, while working at a harvesting cooperative, I had to pick and discard rotten tomatoes.
Among those ‘dead’ vegetables, something fascinated me.
New textures and colors were forming; the inside of their flesh revealed itself.
Now inedible, they appeared even more beautiful to me.
My eye has always wanted to dive beneath the surface, under the skin of matter—
as if to get closer to the movement of life, not always visible or perceptible.
With P O U R R I T U R E, I want to invite viewers to look at what is not meant to be contemplated,
at what frightens us, at apparent strangeness.
I want to honor what sprouts from what is considered dead, repulsive, or impure.
Through my work as a visual artist and scenographer, I am drawn to decay because it exposes and celebrates what is inherent to creation itself: the transformation of matter.
Against the logic of our capitalist system, I find beauty precisely in this space of non-productivity.
I wish to offer that perspective and invite viewers to linger, to be moved—
to rediscover wonder where our eyes have forgotten how to see,
to reconsider the living beyond the human.
Through this expanded perception, I hope my work offers a new way of apprehending reality—
and transforms our gaze.”
— Camille Collin
