When Words Become Form. Ecritures plastiques
When Words Become Form. Ecritures plastiques
A selection of artists from the Art(s) & écriture(s) interdisciplinary module
Juliette Amigues, Léa Anel & Julie Noyer, Magoux Baeyens, Pauline Bonnet, Jade Bouvard, Elsa Broustet, Héloïse Chigard, Lissa Choukrane, Élise De Maio & Maxime Lechêne, Agathe Dupérou, Marie Gauducheau, Matilde Gazeau Frade, Silja Hubert, Victor Huon, Manuel Leromain & Marie-Sophie Robert, Matthieu Livrieri, Giulia Mangione, Lada Neoberdina, Elie Petit & Philippe Gerbehaye, Charlotte Quinonero, Julia Renaudot, Guillemette Ridet, Justine Taillard, Louise Vanhoenacker, Megan Veyrat, Diane Waddington
Jean-Baptiste Carobolante and François de Coninck, co-curators
Exhibition in the gallery of Botanique
For the past five years, the Art(s) & écriture(s) transdisciplinary module for students pursuing a Master’s degree at ENSAV La Cambre has examined the wide array of contemporary forms of writing in art. The debates and exchanges between the word and the image are nothing new. From time immemorial, artworks have always incorporated words into their production, and writing has always been an integral component of the artwork. This represents one of the most fertile dialectical tensions in human thought, one that runs across the history of art and of ideas.
Contemporary interactions between art and literature manifest themselves specifically in what critics have lately labelled “literature outside the book”, “exhibition literature” or “visual literature”, whereby writing artists/writers appropriate language in all its forms via a wide variety of mediums. Today, the forms of writing are specifically being revived in the realm of visual arts, shifting away from the classical forms of literature associated with the medium of the book, such as the novel, poetry and the essay.