For the Contemporary Art Center of Yverdon-les-Bains, Sandrine Pelletier was invited to work on the theme of ceramics and earth. The visual artist from Vaud has created a beautiful and vibrant work of art, on view until November 6.
Grand Prize of the Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture in 2020, Prix Buchet 2021, the visual artist Sandrine Pelletier has a string of distinctions, projects and countries. Born in Lausanne, the ex-goth fan of comics went to the School of Applied Art in Vevey and ECAL, then she chose a life as a sailor, a life that made her move everywhere, all the time. time, from Brussels to Paris, via Beirut, Cairo…
First focused on drawing and embroidery, Sandrine Pelletier loves matter, touching it, transforming it. The visual artist hates perfection, loves accidents. Exit therefore needle and pencil, the artist is now armed with a lighter. Charred wood, melted, broken glass, blackened ceramics, this is his language. More primitive than conceptual, according to her.
The poster for the “Melting Pot or how to change lead into gold” exhibition. [CACY]Sandrine Pelletier sneaks up on the wall
Today, as part of the exhibition “Melting Pot or how to change lead into gold”, it is on a wall that the artist has decided to create his work. A work entitled “The ashes hesitate between fire and dust”, a tribute to the very fragmented style of the Ivorian poet Noël X. Ebony. An organic mosaic of nearly five meters by two and a half, shaped with the finger, made for and directly in the Contemporary Art Center of Yverdon-les-Bains (CACY), with materials with which Sandrine Pelletier did not used to working.
With this work, the visual artist therefore steps out of her comfort zone and moves away from her favorite materials: “I wanted to see how ceramics work. ‘Also interested in building materials for ceramics,’ explains Sandrine Pelletier to RTS.
A collective exhibition
“A kind of earthenware coating the wall, alternating between empty and full, between demolition and ornament, in a deliberately accidental reproduction of the ceramic tile”, describes the CACY, the work is obviously ephemeral since it occupies a whole museum wall and therefore cannot be moved.
“Melting Pot” is also a group exhibition that brings together twenty-one artists from various backgrounds, ceramists and visual artists. This event is organized within the framework of the fiftieth Congress of the International Academy of Ceramics, whose central theme is “Melting Pot. From alchemical crucible to cultural crucible”.
Interview by Julie Evard
Web adaptation: Lara Donnet
“Melting Pot”, Yverdon-les-Bains Contemporary Art Center (CACY), on view until November 6, 2022.