Le fil d’alerte
2019
Views of the group show Le fil d'alerte
As port of the 21st Fondation Pernod Ricard's Prize
Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
Curator Claire Le Restif
Letter to a Barn Owl (2018) is made up of different combinations of domestic objects, mirror plates and plates. The barn owl represented is known as the ghost owl, representing in some cultures the messenger of unspeakable secrets, of the past towards the future and therefore buried tales, marginalised or erased. There is also a Rose of Jericho, a symbol of resurrection but also used in rituals to untie the word, good and prosperity. In the last series of small glass sculptures, Paul Maheke’s 3D laser drawings are engraved with a blend of human and animal representations, which the size reminds talismans. Like incisions, they borrow their style from popular culture and the symbolists, one of whose aims was to make the visible invisible.
Extract from the exhibition mediation booklet by Claire Le Restif, curator, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
© Adagp, Paris
In the watery core of those stories, 2017, installation, The river asked for a kiss (to Pateh Sabally), 2017, installation, view of the exhibition Le fil d’alerte, 2019, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, Farnce, detail, photo Aurélien Mole
In the watery core of those stories, 2017, installation, The river asked for a kiss (to Pateh Sabally), 2017, installation, view of the exhibition Le fil d’alerte, 2019, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, detail, photo Aurélien Mole
In the watery core of those stories, 2017, installation, view of the exhibition Le fil d’alerte, 2019, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, detail, photo Aurélien Mole
Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Letter to a barn Owl #1, 2018, mixed media, Letter to a barn Owl #3, 2018, mixed media, Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Letter to a barn Owl #1, 2018, mixed media, Letter to a barn Owl #3, 2018, mixed media, Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Kasangu ou les mains jeteuses de sorts, 2019, 3D laser-engraved drawings in a glass cube, Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Lucifer/L’ombre et l’augure, 2019, 3D laser-engraved drawings in a glass cube, Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole
Letter to a barn Owl #2, 2018, mixed media, Le fil d’alerte, 2019, view of the exhibition, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France, photo Aurélien Mole