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For Fashioning the Ruins, visual-performance artists Christine Coste and Catherine Ursin rebuild worlds from ephemeral sculptures and impressive freestanding structures suspended and spread across the 400m2 of the Générateur.
For three hours, to the rhythm of electronic music played live by musician Nikola Kapetanovic, these installations are randomly activated by the visual artists. They invite the public to wander and navigate amidst islets with shapes evocative of the plant, organic and geometric world.
“FRAPPING PROVIDES IMPACT,
TARGET RECEIVES IMPACT,
TARGET IS SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE IMPREVISABILITY,
IMPACT PROVIDES SHOCK, HOLE, CRASH, FRAGMENTATION, COLLAPSE, SIDERATION.
HOW TO SHAPE RUINS?”
Christine Coste, Catherine Ursin and Nikola Kapetanovic have been creating together since 2012 from improvised encounters between sound and clay matter, creating an ephemeral fresco in public, meeting again at the Nuit Blanche 2021 at the Générateur…
In 2022, they create the installation-performance illico* at Le Générateur, whose score evolves over time.
Façonner les ruines is their new creation for Le Générateur.
Find out more about the artists:
Catherine Ursin
Christine Coste
Nikola Kapetanovic
Photos: Shaping the Ruins, January 2025 © PhilS and Bernard Bousquet
Christine Coste
Christine Coste
Born in 1965 and working in Pélussin, visual and performance artist Christine Coste works on the interweaving of three specific plastic fields around the issue of the body: ceramics, drawing and performance. Her work is an incessant to-and-fro between these territories.
The artist often explores notions of fragment and hybridization, as in the series of ceramic sculpturesFaux-semblant, Capsule 3D, Apnée, Camisole or Corpusgraphie, where the human merges with the animal, bodies adorned with plundering surfaces or clothing elements. Faces are often hidden or obliterated, as if to better convey the nature of these creatures driven by metamorphosis, encounter, the search for identity, emancipation.
The body in its grip, the shape that mutates, interior/exterior circulation: these issues can also be perceived in the series of large-format drawings Utérin. Born of a weave of repetitive graphic meshes, the bodies vibrate like living cells. Layers overlap, interact and create a spectral and sensual phenomenon.
“Then it will be about desire, which circulates freely, all genres combined. Then it will be about wet, fluid things in a faceless face-to-face, in deaf time. Then it will be a question of fire-tempered ectoplasm, rain-tempered jellyfish…”
In his performances illico*, Pdt, Fragile, Les femmes sans têtes, Souffles, Proxémie, M’inscrire, La vie commence maintenant, Making narratives and those, named under the generic title of Terra incognita, the artist re-enacts the forces at play in her graphic practice: sensual body, obliterated, dilated, animated or chosified.
Drawn from her bodily memory, Christine Coste embodies narratives in her installations as well as in her drawings and performances. The process of unveiling becomes conscious with the [majøtik] series made up of 275 A3-sized drawings made every day for 9 months.
In this universe, at once offensive and gentle, figurative markers tend to blur. Form and content become one. Bodies – those drawn by Christine Coste, but also her own – move freely in a space that tends towards the immersive and intimate landscape.
Catherine Ursin
Catherine Ursin
Born in 1963, Catherine Ursin is a visual artist, poet and performer. She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts d’Angers. In parallel with her artistic practice, she leads plastic creation workshops for students and academics.
In 2021, she works for Lyon 3 University, for which she creates a mural on the theme of water, a temporary installation called la liberté ou la mort and performs Encore est un temple.
In 2023, she presents her exhibition Tu me veux blanche, je ne suis que noire et rouge at La Rage gallery in Lyon, and Résister est un verbe qui se conjugue toujours au présent in 2024 at the Maison du Patrimoine de Villard-de-Lans in the Vercors.
From pictorial gestures on the floor to the experience of performance, the body lies at the heart of his work. The body is drawn, sculpted, photographed, performed, spoken, written… It appears as a link between past and future, a suspended moment between rupestral and sidereal in perpetual motion.
With visual artist and sculptor Christine Coste, they create several joint performances at Le Générateur in 2022, which they perform in a hurry and in which they play with the boundaries between different artistic media: Illico / trace with Nikola Kapetanovic, Illico / in locus with Nikola Kapetanovic, Illico / passage.
” The work of visual artist Catherine Ursin is transgressive, heteroclite, unclassifiable. Yet the body, monstrous and masterful, constantly reinvested in all its plasticity, invariably delivers a reflection on the invisible, the unnamable, the unalterable clash of existence. “
G. Braquet
” Painter, sculptor, performer, she believes that art can repair the entropy of the world. A response to the violence that pierces flesh and soul. Against immolation, the word of the poet. Rallying the living, honoring the dead. Catherine Ursin’s work is a kind of refoundation. An enterprise that does not speak its name. The work fascinates in a double movement of attraction and dread.”
Marie Girault (in Catherine Ursin, Le corps monde (extrait), Artension N°141)
illico*
