OFLUXO

Juliette Feck’s gesture is the resonance of an incarnation emerging from distant memory. Her works invoke a process of metamorphosis through the modelling of ceramic. Powerful as a breath of life, they claim to be the mark of a dissidence, a form of resistance to the norm. Juliette Feck carries within her a quest for the sublime governed by a passion for flow, danger and animosity.

For her first solo exhibition, Juliette Feck has organised an ambitious convocation. In an aesthetic that pays homage to the cinematographic and literary genre of gore associated 2 with the fantastic, a dystopian citadel is offered to us: flirting with the faults of a society, of the inter-relationship between humans and the living around them, her work condemns hate in all its forms.

The artist imagines a narrative journey guided by the fragmentation of a sculptural bestiary in earthenware. The animals represented, the she-wolf and the fox, historically considered as monstrous and enraged, dangerous for man, confront us here with our own aggressiveness. Homo homini lupus est. [3]

Inspired by the violent news of a she-wolf hanged in the Hautes-Alpes4, the figure of the wolf has an ambivalent role, combining positive and negative aspects. Brutalized, it testifies to man’s infatuation with the animal. In the vernacular, the wolf is cruel, the she-wolf protective. With intelligence, Juliette Feck presents the animal figure as a committed social metaphor in the face of the impunity granted to violence perpetrated by a patriarchal society.

« Each form is a symbol, a prayer to ward off a civilisation adrift », the artist confides. The search for harmony based on respect for the living is apparent in Juliette Feck’s intimate and probably eco-feminist tale at the axolotl gallery. The gushing hands of predatory mermaids only reinforce a sense of urgency, a burst of lucidity and a critical look at contemporary society. But this slaughter is free of all judgment: it is life and its desire that Juliette invokes through her sublimation.

The exhibition is supported by the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design Toulon Provence Méditerranée