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Pascaline Rey
www.pascalinerey.fr
[email protected]
+33 6 80 40 55 38
The "Desired" and the pieces «To be touched " are the first two stages of
a work on the desire and its mechanisms, presented under the shape of
a sensual and tactile discovery.
This theme joins a wider reflection on the relationship of the other one
and its evolution in the virtual dimension : to create its visual identity, to
accumulate "contacts" and "friends" on the social networks, to fall in love
on a meeting site, the "virtualisation" offers a reassuring and clean space
- the condom of the human relation - exclusively visual to the detriment
of the tactile perception.
- The Desired (to seduce)
The «Desired» are made of used pieces of lingerie collected from
hundreds women. Each work is the portrait of a seducer, who wears her
own perfume and who takes the shape of a jellyfish. Beyond the myth of
the Gorgon, the animal embodies the attraction and the dangerousness
of the seducer.
- To be touched (to caress, to touch)
Spining the marine metaphor, this work «To be touched» could be the
intimate discovery of the «Desired».
Conceived to incite to touch the materials and to caress the forms, every
piece suggests a different sensory experiment thanks to its surprising
materials and its cavities.
This work is in progress.
The Desired
«Isabella»
2009 - metal frame and polyurethane foam covered
with satin, hair nets and stockings
diam. 80 cm, height 200 cm
«Sibylle»
2009 -polystryrene foam covered with satin and laces diam.45 cm, height 120 cm
«Eve»
2010 -poluyrethane foam, laces, satin diam. 60 cm, height 100 cm
«Siouxie»
2010 - polyurethane foam, covered with satin, laces
and miscalleneous metal pieces
diameter 65 cm height 100 cm «Saki»
«blossom of hope»
2011 -wool, laces, rubans, artificial hair
diameter 20 cm height 35 cm
«Stimuli» Studio 55
at Espace Cardin
October 2010
Mac Paris
November 2010
Galerie Alexandre Cadain
September 2011
To be touched
To be touched I
2009 - clay & polyurethane painting
diameter 25 cm
To be touched II
2009 - clay, polyurethane painting
& skaï
25 cm x 12 cm
To be touched III
2010 - clay & polyurethane painting
diameter 30 cm
what they say
Aya Takano, October 2010
«A scientist was saying :
- If an alien visit the Earth, he will think that the Earth is dominated by jellyfish.
Most of the people may not know that, but the earth is filled with jellyfish.
I also saw the sea as far as full of jellyfish.
Human's common sense is totally different from common sense of the universe, Pascaline knows that by instinct.»
Sophie Bramly
SecondSexe.com
" The post mail that Pascaline Rey receives every day doesʼnt look at all like other
peopleʼs mail. Her letter box does not receive either invoices, or useless wretched
papers. Every morning the post-office employee gives her all the womenʼs
intimacy : worn out stockings, bras where wire have been locked out for too long or
that time wore out, garter belt or garters coming with their stories of seduction,
touched genitals, flesh which one needs to cover to strip better. There are corsets
which stopped compressing sizes, emphasizing large breasts,negligees tired of
passionate nights of love and endless waits. Pascaline opens her mail to read
women's stories in a fragile balance between strength and fragility. Of the crimson
lace of a tired bra, she could establish a fiction, but she refrains. She " always looks
for stockings and pierced or spun tights, parts of lingerie with lace, tulle, satin,
corsets, longline bras, " to transform these tools of the feminity in jellyfish».
Predatory, sometimes mortal for human beings, jellyfish have peculiarities which
make us smile: they have no brain, are transparent, reproduce alone, are made of
parasols and tentacles. Frightening from the power they possess, they also have a
fragility and a grace when they move, that cannot leave one insensitive. This is
what Pascaline Rey puts into the heart of her work.
From the jellyfish bride who indicates the loss of its hymen by a dash of blood
splashing her virgins laces, to the emancipated one who goes through the night
while playing with her body, by way of the « bourgeoise », conventional only guided
by tradition, to the joyful widow, Pascaline Rey imagines the life of each of the
women who posted their lingerie by valuing this paradox which is intrinsic to us: to
be dangerous and scarry through our strength to make, and to be fragile and
vulnerable through our lack of confidence and self-esteem. Pascaline Rey did not
choose lingerie as her raw material to hesitate to speak about our sexuality.
On the opposite, this admirer of Dorothea Tanning, Chiho Aoshima and Aya Takano,
this fervent reader of Beauvoir and Bataille has a pronounced taste for eroticism
and the power it confers to women, whether they choose to be desirous or desired.
If the fabrics she uses come with their stories of sex, the outlines of her jellyfishs
insist on the desire, the various incantations of the flesh and the pleasure it brings
too .
The dance that begins with the gathered jellyfishs begins is the one that speaks
about our questioning. How do we desire ourselves? Are our choices right? Do they
help us function, move into the right direction ? Do we need to conform to please?
Must we also be dumbfounded? By looking at the work of Pascaline Rey, the
answer is yes. "
Gaya Goldcymer - March 2011.
" If the production of Pascaline Rey is multi-form, it is true that its shape par
excellence is the jellyfish. In the Greek mythology, Medusa is the protector and the
guard and is one of the three Gorgons. Omnipresent in the history of art and the
humanity, she is also important in the psychoanalytical symbolism and for the
feminine imagination. Materials used to create these singular shapes, known and
nevertheless so enigmatic, are flexible, light and sometimes transparent: laces,
tulles, embroidery, satin. Fluid materials of the feminine lingerie, suggestive curves,
which the artist gets back as so much of ready-made, sensual, sometimes erotic,
heavy of story and memory. The series of jellyfish, fragile and vulnerable creatures,
so called «The Desired» by the artist, mark their link with the loving and sensual
dimension. Nevertheless, in spite of the opalescence of their parasol and their
fragility is similar, they are capable of damaging when they are urticant.
Ambivalence of a shape and a reality... And if the jellyfishes of Rey are poisonous,
they are in delicacy, in colored explosion and in subtlety ": in magnificence. "
Palace Coste n°35 - Avril Mai 2011
Le Parisien Paris - 14 février 2011
Technikart Octobre 2010
L!Officiel Août 2011
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LessoiréesdeParis.com
Les méduses par dessus tout à MacParis. Publié le 27 novembre 2010 par Philippe
Bonnet.
La provenance des dessous collectés par Pascaline Rey relève du secret professionnel.
C!est en effet avec de la lingerie usagée que cette artiste -qui expose du 25 au 28
novembre au Macparis- confectionne des méduses que l!on pourrait confondre, de loin,
avec des suspensions lumineuses.«"Et il m!en faut beaucoup parce que je jette ce que je
n!utilise pas"» avoue Pascaline Rey en vantant au passage la tolérance de son mari
pour ces livraisons postales hors normes.Ces méduses représentent des femmes, la
mariée avec le filet de sang central qui symbolise la perte de l!hymen, la bourgeoise ou
encore l!affranchie. «"Cette admiratrice de Dorothea Tanning, de Chiho Aoshima et d!Aya
Takano, cette fervente lectrice de Beauvoir et Bataille, a un goût prononcé pour
l!érotisme et du pouvoir qu!il confère aux femmes, qu!elles choisissent d!être désirantes
ou désirées"» commente à son propos Sophie Bramly, la fondatrice de
SecondSexe.com.
exhibitions
2011 :
«Féminins Singuliers» Galerie Alexandre Cadain (Paris)
2010 :
MacParis Art Fair
«Stimuli» at Espace Cardin for Studio55 (Paris)
2006 :
«Le végétal dans lʼunivers urbain » organized by Mairie de
Paris in parc André Citroën
2004 :
Maison de la culture de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie)
2003 :
«Pixels, Pigments and Space» La Robinetterie,
for the «Arty Party de Stéphanie» (Paris)
Galerie a&a (Paris)
Arte Nîmes Artfair (Gard)
Galerie Anne Cros (Pézenas, Hérault)
1996 : Galerie Ileana Bouboulis (Paris)
corporate exhibitions
PriceWaterhouse Coopers (La Défense)
Groupe EDF Suez (La Défense)
Lefebvre PriceWaterhouse Coopers (La Défense)
Herbert Smith Llp (Paris)
Johnson & Jonhson (Issy-les-Moulineaux)
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