How to capture the coastline? Some will define it as a space on the seaside. Divided into coast, shoreline, foreshore and foreshore. A tongue of land that undergoes the tireless assaults of the ocean, under a benevolent celestial veil.
A frontier. Between land, sea and sky.
Their confrontation brings opposites closer together. Eternal immobility and infinite movement. Unstable water and dry land. Calm and storm. What better space then to separate the known and the unknown, the "us" and the "others"? The coastline has become a frontier, not only between the natural elements, but also between cultures.
It is therefore propitious to welcome human movements, because this intermediate zone is a symbol of passage. The definition becomes a metaphor: a starting point, an opening to the unknown. Behind us are the memories; opposite is the apprehension of discovery. Our path snakes from one to the other, barely lightened by a glimmer of experience, between the restless trees of daily chaos.
The synthesis of being, born from the hazards of life, is forged in each one of us. At the present moment the frontier opens up, a throbbing slide from the past to the future. Opposites are transgressed, water watering the earth to give birth to life.
The confluence of beings and things responds to the expanse of the shoreline, an opening towards all the possible in the making... (Blandine Boucheix)
On the sidelines of the exhibition, visitors will be able to listen and dialogue with Blandine Boucheix about this medium that has crossed the centuries and continues to arouse the creative interest of many contemporary artists and collectors.
Marie Havel (France) is recipient of the residency program "Daniel and Niana Carasso Foundation & Cité internationale des arts".