:
Material:
salt on canvas
Date:
since 2008
Key Concern:
creating images using salt as the only medium on black canvas.
Apropos:
Like the trace of a person sweating in a dark shirt, the salt paintings are the result of an effort (painting) as well as its own substantial metaphor (sweat). Also associated to money, salt gave it's name to the word salary.
Images
Material:
cotton on shaped wood stretchers
Date:
since 2011
Key Concern:
two languages: smiley and monochrome blended together.
Apropos:
emoticons are the most massively used international language symbolising emotions. It first appeared when typewritten texts largely expanded and then with the era of mobile phones and of live chat on the Internet. It is used here within the language of monochrome paintings. The emoticon has been turned into a palpable object. This hyperbolic manner of showing emoticons intends to inspire the audience in reflecting on our everyday relations to each other.
Images
Material:
latex, breath, wood
Date:
since 2011
Key Concern:
an organic unstable form (balloon) incarcerated in a rigid geometrical structure.
Images
Material:
several
Date:
since 2011
Key Concern:
geometrical 3 dimensional objects documenting human activities and everydayness.
Images
Material:
video and live performance
Date:
since 2010
Key Concern:
one-shot videos / live performances involving simple setup plays in a physical tension between the models and the rudimentary material manipulated.
Apropos:
The actions commenced with the desire of overplaying skits. The setup is as unobtrusive as possible. The act is often protracted and the end predictable and the tension and curiosity keeps ones attention and tend to make us self aware of what is going on.
Images
emoticon
action
balloon
rebus
salt-painting
edition
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ARTIST CONTACT:
info(at)stephaneblumer(dot)com
GALLERY CONTACT :
Born in 1985 Geneva — CH, lives and works in London — UK
Studies
Exhibitions
Scholarships
Publication
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2009
Etumag n°36, Geneva University,
introduction by Alexandre Varela,
Geneva, Switzerland
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