Sound composition : Dante Pannetier

Text by Florian Besset

The Carmélites
After the penumbra of the room 1 and the obscurity of the room 2, here we are in the bright light generously distributed by the south and west windows of this beautiful room. The artwork conceived « in situ » was supposed not to have any title but, to designate by chance during a conversation, Caroline named it very spontaneously « The Carmélites ».
By chance? I do not think so. These two volumes very simple, made of sanded polycarbonate that capture the light with great softness and seem in the middle of a whispered exchange, evocate the two young novices of the movie « The Dialogue of the Carmélites »*, and the notion of contemplation to which the work of the artist invites so often.  
By their luminosity, these figures establish an intense dialogue with the surrounding architecture, glorifying it and call inside the spectator the esthetical emotion synonymous of beauty, key moment of an inner reconciliation between the opposites that live inside ourselves.

Giorgio de Chirico :
« Silent life, listening, hearing, learning to express the hidden voice of things, here is the path and the goal of art. »**
* Film by Philippe Agostini (1960), dialogues by Georges Bernanos, with Jeanne Moreau, Allida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Louis Barraud). Le Carmel est un Ordre contemplatif.
** Giorgio de Chirico, L‘Histoire de l‘art est-elle finie?, Jacqueline Chambon, 1989