Estèla Alliaud Selection of works

Intérieur2011, photographie tirage jet d’encre, 70x105cm

produced during the national program Ecriture de lumière, avec le soutien du Ministère dela Culture, la DRAC Aquitaine, le Ministère de l’agriculture, la DRAAF Aquitaine, le CRARC Aquitaine, le FRAC Aquitaine et l’EPLEFA des Landes.

In his treatise called traité sur l’efficacité, François Julien describes processes of creation for which « it is essential that the effect is not subjected to any overload from whoever produces it, and that they should be careful not to add anything personal and emotional to its pure effecti-veness.” This form of “efficiency” “at the polar opposite of the flamboyant effect” is also the one that Estèla Alliaud is seeking. In deliberately neu-tral interiors, she engages simple phenomena with materials that she stages: a floor covered in milk, an empty room swamped with an ash cloud, a patch of clay slowly flowing on plywood… These set spaces both thought-out and intuitive are photographed in real time. If the camera is used for its descriptive qualities, for Estèla Alliaud it is also a speculation tool. The fragmented visions that she samples from these experiences enhance fine phenomena: fragile equilibriums of a mass layout, discreet appearances of phenomena triggered by contacts, transitions from one state to another. Sometimes, the artist chooses to re-establish them with several shots so that it is possible to follow the evolutions of the substance and the way the movement inscribes or fixes itself in it. This substance thus becomes a memory, a sensitive testimony of an advent or a disappearance. Each and every one should estimate where they stand on this evolution. The eye brushes the materials and eyesight gets more refined through contact with miniscule details. Estèla Alliaud thus awakens the viewer’s sensitivity in substance, without directing it towards a definite thematic.

Marguerite Pilven, March 2013In Solo Project’s catalog, Basel 2013.

Sans titreSerie of three photographies, tirages jet d’encre, 26,5x17,5cm, 2008.

Sans titrePhotographie tirage jet d’encre, 31x36cm, 2009

exhibition view La Rime et la raison (curated by MPVite et Label Hypothèse), photographie Mael Le Golvan.

Exhibition view, Espace Eugène beaudouin, 2010.

Sans titre (cendres)Serie of nine photographies, tirage jet d’encre, 10x15cm, 2009.

Sans titre Photographie tirage jet d’encre, dimensions variables, 2011

produced during the national program Ecriture de lumière, with the support of the Ministère dela Culture, la DRAC Aquitaine, le Ministère de l’agriculture, la DRAAF Aquitaine, le CRARC Aquitaine, le FRAC Aquitaine et l’EPLEFA des Landes.

Sans titre Photographie tirage jet d’encre, dimensions variables, 2011

produced during the national program Ecriture de lumière, with the support if the Ministère de la Culture, la DRAC Aquitaine, le Ministère de l’agriculture, la DRAAF Aquitaine, le CRARC Aquitaine, le FRAC Aquitaine et l’EPLEFA des Landes.

La forme empruntée(detail)Plaster, 550x430x60cm, 2014, Le Pavillon,Pantinproduced with the support of the Pavillon, Pantin.

La forme empruntée(detail)Plaster, 550x430x60cm, 2014, Le Pavillon,Pantinproduced with the support of the Pavillon, Pantin.

Huit angles, un cube(detail)

plaster 1x1x1m, 2012 .

Huit angles, un cube,Plaster 1x1x1m,2012, view of the exhibition Bonus.

BorduresPhotographie tirage jet d’encre, 60x80cm, 2011

produced during the artist residency Pour l’instantwith the support of the association Pour l’instant (CACP (Centre d’art contemporain photographique Niort)).

Sans titre (écart)Photographie tirage jet d’encre, 22 x 31,5cm, 2012.

Sans titreInstallation, steel tube, paint, A4 paper, photographie Sans titre (écart), 380x282x18cm, 2014

view of the exhibition Un pied puis l’autre, l’Entre Deux, Pantin.

Sans titre(details)

Installation, steel tube, paint, A4 paper, photographie Sans titre (écart), 380x282x18cm, 2014

view of the exhibition Un pied puis l’autre, l’Entre Deux, Pantin.

Sans titre(details)

Installation, steel tube, paint, A4 paper, photographie Sans titre (écart), 380x282x18cm, 2014

view of the exhibition Un pied puis l’autre, l’Entre Deux, Pantin.

FenêtresInstallation, a glass of a window inserted inside a double glazing window.

Fenêtres(detail)

Installation, a glass of a window inserted inside a double glazing window.

Ligne d’horizonpins, dimensions variables, Pavillon mais presque, Le Pavillon, Pantin, 2013.(detail).

Sans titrePhotographie tirage jet d’encre, 55x82cm, 2009.

L’attentePhotographie tirage jet d’encre, 30x21cm, 2013.