Sous couleur de.... CAUSERiE

As part of ZOA, the exhibition Sous couleur de... explores the relationship between color and space through works by Mustapha Azeroual, Olivier Debré, Gilgian Gelzer, Nancy Graves, Damien Poulain, Baptiste Rabichon, Georges Rousse and Edouard Wolton. "Color is everywhere. We define, categorize and hierarchize the world around us through color. Any description in language - of an object, a form, a being, a space - calls on the vocabulary of color specific to each language. Often with few words, we try to translate the infinite nuances perceived by our brains. We associate colors with emotions, feelings and symbolism, as fragile evidences and shifting certainties in the light of each individual's experience and culture. As vulnerable as it is subjective, color contains an obvious symbolic and expressive potential that makes it a subject in its own right in the visual arts. Color also has an essential relationship with space. It accompanies or modifies our perception, expresses or reinforces a signifying value, sometimes to the point of introducing a disturbance, a sensory disturbance. It is as much used to transcribe a physical space as to transpose an imaginary or dreamlike one. In the course of the exhibition, the eye is first captivated by the colors, then gradually invited to identify their limits, to confront the space. The colors are a reference point, a fulcrum that slips away to give way to exaltation and vertigo." Anne-Céline Borey, exhibition curator