Sortilèges

— Nantes (44) — 2019
Artist: Elisabeth Ballet
Client: University of Nantes
Location: Tertre Campus

“The horizontality of the paths, the crossings from one site to another, the tiered steps, offering, a priori, a multiplicity of perspectives for placing a work representing movement, adapted to the outdoor environment. […] The architectural texture associated with that of sound expression gave me the idea of a polyphonic project by searching for resounding words that are spoken aloud or in a whisper; linked to breath, to breathing, to its cadences and rhythms, they are musical; the words call out, sing, scream, vibrate, shine, they are sonorous and signal how alive and full of energy they are, diffusing it around them, in space and at full voice, through the breath in bodies. The university echoes this. With Arthur Rimbaud, the vibrant words draw images.” E.B.