For its 10th exhibition in 2020, the Villa Datris Foundation has chosen to explore recycling in all its forms in contemporary sculpture and to question our relationship to objects.
At a time when sustainable development has become an absolute priority, contemporary artists are taking up this fundamental issue with particular acuity. They also find in it a rich source of inspiration to recreate a new world.
Deliberately, by conviction or by choice, artists resort to waste as an artistic material in its own right, renouncing the acquisition of so-called "noble" materials to create or compose their works.
These scraps, waste, garbage, objects left behind and rejected by the flow of consumption find a job, a utility, an identity – a true social metaphor.
Marie Havel is one of the 89 international artists in this collective exhibition.
Marie Havel (France) is recipient of the residency program "Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation & Cité internationale des arts".