Art on Paper 05.09-09.09.18
“Sophie Jodoin”
Art on Paper
05.09.-09.09.18
Bruxelles, BOZAR
Booth 36
on entend son coeur battre à grands coups is both a visual as well as a literary installation: it compels to be read. An educational book is taken apart. Its pages loosened, read, analyzed, annotated, sanded. A few words escape this disappearance to form the portrait of a nameless woman whose past, present, and future remain unknown. Photographs have been blurred and their meaning evacuated. The reading of this disembodied narrative, singular and poetic, yields few points of reference. Who is this woman? What has happened to her? Her life is outside words - in the transparency of the pages and the erased epidermis of her double. Her story has been laid out flat on shelves, waist high, occupying the space as a long sentence – some forty pages placed side by side. Our bodies leaning towards what escapes us, waiting.
This proposal by artist Sophie Jodoin is in continuity with her recent work concerned with writing and its relationship to images as well as a more expanded drawing practice and its deployment in space. The body, as a subject that has always occupied her interest, is increasingly discrete in her works and evoked by words. Language itself becomes the actual material of the work as much as its foremost mode of articulation; a manner of re-writing of the body resonating with that of the spectator, who becomes in turn an involved, anticipatory reader.
