Victor Yudaev - view of the studio, 2018 - Image: © Victor Yudaev
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LES BAIGNEURS
VICTOR YUDAEV Curator: Néon (Lyon, Fr) 01.18 - 03.16 / Opening 01.17, 5pm Victor Yudaev's work revolves around heteroclite objects and narratives gleaned from his surroundings, feeding from his reality, his imagination and well as his reading of the world. His formal vocabulary is equally varied as it explores the fields of crafts (such as woodcarving, ceramics or sewing), of literature and music, as well as digital animation and cinema. The whole is built in the likes of "novela-objects", as he describes in his own words, where the different pieces become protagonists of diverse episodes: exhibitions or ensemble pieces. They address Victor’s, the fictional artist, relationship to the world, a universe filled with wanderings and memories. Victor currently has four passions: work, walk, swim and sleep. Together, these activities intertwine and weave a guiding string for a plentiful and passionate series of work that explore the multitude set-ups and play of sequences of objects. They play on the idea of assembling and re-assembling like jazz standards that vary depending on the mood, taste and imagination of the musician. Les Baigneurs is both designed as a series of pieces for the exhibition at Diagonale and a mock-up of future costumes for a film in the making. The construction of these works is free to interpretation, reappropriation and commitment creating the possibility of an open scenario. Here, if the title evokes Cezanne's famous paintings, the play of puppets bathing proposed by Victor Yudaev's embarks us on both Jarry's absurd and incongruous January, just as well as transport us into the probable display case of a couture sign, very inspired by the artist's work clothes! The exhibition Les Baigneurs is presented as part of the project Conversations Montreal|Lyon. |
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