Biography

GALLERY: Catherine Issert gallery

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My practice is primarily sculptural, but extends to many other mediums: video, sound, drawing and installation, which enable me to invest in other fields and thus enlarge my investigation area. On my main activity, I consider my works as generators of uncertainty instruments, asking about their features, functionality or fictionnalities and engaging the imagination, memory and the body of the viewer. These sculptures are based primarily on the research of Heinz von Foerster, an Austrian scientist and philosopher, founder of cybernetics, that he proposes to enter into a post-digital age. In fact, we would have arrived at the end of digital systems, which do not leave any place for error, Heinz Von Foerster concluded therefore the need for the creation of systems allowing, or creating errors to discover new shapes: nontrivial tools.

The very status of the sculptural object is in question: can we (and should we) use these non-trivial tools and machines or should we simply observe them? Are their shape induced by a function, are they deliberate, or ares they simply a “drawing in space”? (See non-trivial Tool # 1, non-trivial Tool # 2, * [asterisk]) These sculptures voluntarily leave much to the imagination, since the shape and the materials used can refer to different settings (sports, medical, etc..). (See Hexapod)

Then my work in drawing, collage, painting (Phantoms series, EraseAllTracesOfHumanity series) begin with an observation about the architecture: it is made by man for himself. The series EraseAllTracesOfHumanity, and as the name suggests, offers structures to erase all vestiges of man after his hypothetical (and more than probable) death. The Animal is always present and it is now he who gives a the scale of the drawing. Etched directly into the glass, it ensures discreet, these proposals biodegradable destructive architectures bringing Earth to pre-human state. The Phantoms series, which began two years later, is the result of the evolution of the designs of the previous series in a logical simplification.

In my sculptures, installations and drawings, the human occupies a very important place, but nevertheless be present. Indeed, my work deals with para human and post human, while conducting a real investigation in purely sculptural and pictorial fields.

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