4 to 4
BASHAR ALHROUB
CÉCILE BORNE
ISABELLE LEDUC
PIERRE-LUC POUJOL
March 12 - August 30, 2020

Continuing its current art cycle, launched in 2014, the Paul Valéry Museum is showing from March 12, 2020 the exhibition 4 to 4 : an event offered every two years which brings together 4 individual exhibitions each time dedicated simultaneously to 4 internationally recognized artists.

For this fourth edition, 4 to 4 shows the works of Bashar ALHROUB (Palestine), Cécile BORNE (Douarnenez), Isabelle LEDUC (Quebec), Pierre-Luc POUJOL (Montpellier),

4 artists, 4 universes

Bashar ALHROUB

Thresholds

Bashar ALHROUB lives and works in Ramallah (Palestine). He is a lecturer at the Technical University of Palestine-Khadouri.

Using different techniques (painting, drawing, photography, installation), his work deals with the issue of place, its function and its influence on creativity. Because of his roots, Bashar Alhroub is deeply marked by the question of identity and belonging to a social and cultural community. Self-knowledge has recently become a focus of research. Her work deals with personal vulnerability and existential worry, associated with issues such as religion, nationalism, conflict and identity building. It corresponds to a search for meaning in the context of an experience of exile and fragmentation.

Cecile BORNE

Archeology of abandonment

Raised by the sea, on the shores of Brittany, Cécile BORNE has been practicing treasure hunting since childhood. This shipwreck activity forever determines her fascination with the experience of the limit and the poetics of ruin. After studying visual arts at the Sorbonne, she continued her apprenticeships in contemporary dance in London and Paris. She created Cie Aziliz Dañs at the crossroads of dance, plastic arts and video. She questions the notions of body, memory and movement. In this survey of traces, she questions the stripped human and the social human, their fragmented forms, visible and invisible.

Cécile Borne has been carrying out for several years a work of memory and creation around stranded fabrics, pieces of fabric from the sea and rejected by the sea. These fabric fragments become the starting point of a development sensitive to the edges of the sea. intimacy of the body and the social fabric. These humble relics, silent ruins, bear witness to a story without words. It is also pursuing research on plastic waste present on the coast.

Isabelle LEDUC

Isabelle LEDUC was born in 1949 in Paris. She lives and works in Montreal. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Canada (Rimouski Museum, Saint Hyacinthe Exhibition Center, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art) and in Europe (France, Germany, Austria). She was the winner of the Paper prize at the Biennale du dessin, de l'print et du papier du Québec. She produced a public work for the Perce-Neige school in Pierrefonds (Quebec, Canada). His work is part of many institutional and private collections, including those of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, the City of Montreal and the Art Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts. She is represented in Montreal by the Éric Devlin gallery.

Pierre Luc POUJOL

Trip to Giverny

Pierre-Luc POUJOL was born in 1963 in the heart of the Cévennes. He now shares his time in his workshops near Montpellier and Miami.

After studying applied arts, he devoted his creative talent to the service of design and graphics, then definitively turned a few years ago to painting.

Returning from a trip to Giverny, Pierre-Luc Poujol pays a vibrant tribute to Claude Monet. In his studio near Montpellier, the color bursts: he resorts to dripping, projection, dripping. Without direct contact with the canvas, the painter's gesture is as much controlled as it is subject to chance, combining sensitivity and balance. Reinterpreting the theme of Water Lilies or even that of trees interacting with the surface of the water, allowing, like Monet, color to emerge from light, the artist offers a personal plastic universe, constantly energized by expressive explosions of color. and happy.