Les Phalènes (The Moths) CRAC Alsace October 2024 – January 2025
View of the series an oval, a vowel, an e (2021). The works Tides, Day, Snapping Shrimp, Beach Nest, The Waves Close Over Us, Whale Song, Up and down in and out all aroundSteel and dyed plaster. Variable dimensions
Meetings, 2024. Digital cotton weave, aluminum. 36.5 x 2.7 cm.
”At the beginning of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, one of the characters’ voices describes Elvedon, a realm of eternal flux located where “the waves close over us.”* Marie Raffn names some of her sculptures after this passage, freely interpreting a novel which, echoing her own practice, experiments with the malleability of language and ideas. Undulating lines of steel surround those who traverse the artist’s tide of sculptures. Punctuated here and there by elements of colored plaster, these loops draw a written language in space. The gallery is thus flooded with waves that “sweep the beach with steel blue and diamond-tipped water. They draw in and out with the energy, the muscularity of an engine which sweeps its force out and in again.”** Could this be the place where, by the force of the backwash, language and matter become one and the same? Could this be the place beyond the solidity of things, Elvedon?* The Waves, p. 16.
** Ibid, p. 108.”
Curated by Richard Neyroud
Photos by Aurélien Mole
Group show with
Io Burgard, Luisanna González Quattrini, Maude Léonard-Contant, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Marie Raffn, Margaret Salmon, Ernesto Satori and Lucille Uhlrich
CRAC Alsace
Centre rhénan d’art contemporain
18 rue du Château
Altkirch, France
