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    • BLACK INCARNATION
    The Espace Ecureuil Foundation for Contempory Art of Toulouse, is hosting this year the Biennale Passage(s) Design(s) Noir(s), with an exhibition titled Black Incarnation.

    The Espace Ecureuil Foundation for Contempory Art of Toulouse, is hosting this year the Biennale Passage(s) Design(s) Noir(s), with an exhibition titled Black Incarnation.

    Nelly Saunier was invited, along with other artists and designers, to give their take on the colour black and its symbolism in our life, our environments, in art.

    The piece that is exposed here is one of the five works from Nelly Saunier’s “Nature Transformée” [Transformed Nature"> series, which are each an evocation of nature reborn, of hope in the desert, where life can reawaken.

    The result is a moving illusion, which confuses our senses, and make us question the presence of birds in trees. It is only when we approach the piece that we realize that the leaves we were seeing are in fact delicate butterflies.

    The feathers used for this piece symbolize the meeting of a woman, Nelly Saunier’s aunt, and a bird, an Alexandrine parakeet that appeared one day in her garden. Tamed but flying freely, the bird left one day, as suddenly as it had arrived, leaving behind the feathers of its moult. It is these feathers that are used here, giving a beautiful color gradient in the composition of the branch’s foliage.

    The branch itself is blackened, to symbolise the slash and burn process, where the earth and plants are burnt, to allow nature to resurface, stronger.

    Click here for more details on the exhibition [in French">.


    Photo credits: © Fondation Espace Ecureuil

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