CHROMAMOUR: La Métamorphose

Opening Thursday 6 February from 7pm in the presence of the artist.

[Free entry]

Lise Haller Baggesen Invokes sensitive worlds towards new shared futures.
Lise Haller Baggesen's solo exhibitions in France reflect her belief in a lost beauty, rediscovered and within reach in a damaged world.

In 2020, the artist, confined to her studio, laid the groundwork for the series with her teenage daughter, and began, in a transgenerational dialogue, to work with the materials at hand: clothes and fabrics - later sourced from second-hand stores - paint, and the desire to sketch out speculative scenarios. The result of these initial experiments will be a series of paintings on fabric, also portable, each with a performance version. Ingrid Luquet-Gad ‘Pour une politique transtemporelle du tissage’ catalogue ‘Apocalypstick’ publisher Le Confort moderne, p. 40.

In 2023, ‘Apocalyspstick’ set the conditions for a possible new world, a landscape inhabited by chrysalis-like forms embodying possible ways of welcoming the worlds to come: coloured debutante dresses in brightly-coloured shapes to which pop slogans encapsulated in paintings responded.

More than a year later, at Le Bicolore, the title "ChromAmour: la métamorphose" indicates that our collective chromophobia is over. We've had enough of being sick, we're tired of being tired, we're thirsty for human contact, for the painted gesture, for the tactile rather than the digital. We're ready for colour to return to our cheeks and our streets.

"La Métamorphose" is inspired by the thought of Emanuele Coccia in his book of the same name, published by Rivages 2020: ‘Every living thing is in itself a plurality of forms’.

Exhibition curator: Kathy Alliou