Texts
Sculpture as a project
Text by Balqis Tandjaoui - Translated by Lucy Pons
Produced by Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with the support of the Fondation de l’Olivier, 2024
Sculpture as a project
Text by Balqis Tandjaoui - Translated by Lucy Pons
Produced by Documents d’artistes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with the support of the Fondation de l’Olivier, 2024
Émilie Perotto est sculptrice
Par Alexandre Bohn, 2018
Émilie Perotto est sculptrice
Par Alexandre Bohn, 2018
Statement
By Émilie Perotto, février 2016 — Translated by Simon Pleasance, 2015 (excerpt)
Statement
By Émilie Perotto, février 2016 — Translated by Simon Pleasance, 2015 (excerpt)
It must be said that my first sculptures appear in precise contexts. The constraints of production and display are the first lines in my list of specifications. So the exhibition context is a central factor of the work process. I usually begin this latter by focusing on the architectural and spatial context, which subsequently leads me to broach socio-economic contexts.
The concreteness of exhibition venues, as well as the “presentness” of the encounter between visitor, sculpture and space, are the nerve centres of my research. This is how I see sculpture, as the medium of the encounter between a human body and a plastic body in a defined space. I've called this encounter a “sculptural situation”.
I'd like all my works to produce in the visitor what I call a “sculptural feeling”, which depends on the construction of the “sculptural situation”. My sculptures are component and revelatory agents of this. They put visitors in a specific situation, for a suspended period of time, during which they have the physical and mental experience of a space. [...]
Sculpture is what it is and it is from such reality that its poetry emerges
By Anne Kawala, 2008
Sculpture is what it is and it is from such reality that its poetry emerges
By Anne Kawala, 2008
Other texts online
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GHILDE
Par Émilie Perotto, 2025
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Escultura es un acueducto
Par Émilie Perotto, 2024
Pour l'exposition au Museo Regional de Querétaro -
L'information me touche : DATASCULPTURE, une œuvre d'Émilie Perotto
Par Sylvie Coëllier, 2023
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Entretien avec Émilie Perotto
Par Alexandre Bohn, 2020
Pour l'exposition VOLONTAIRE, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême -
Vernaculaire
Par Frédéric Montfort, 2018
Pour l'exposition Il n'existe pas d'endroit semblable à notre maison, L'Assaut de la menuiserie, Saint-Étienne -
Privilégier l'indescriptible
Par Anne Kawala, 2016