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Curator
Benjamin Loyauté
Site
Amicale Laïque Chapelon
16 place Jacquard
Date
From 12/03/2015
To 12/04/2015
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It is with an art installation that this exhibition addresses the world of the abstract spare parts in a workshop and that of the sculptural matrices of factories, those shaped in the territory of Saint-Etienne. It addresses and reconsiders through the prism of production rules, automatic control and manoeuvres, the poetic relationship between the worker's gestures and thoughts and his machine. The mechanical contraption which has sometimes become a powerful computer-controlled robot does not erase the know-how that lingers on in the person, who day after day bonds with his machine and is confronted with these devices full of complications, as if in an instinctive, innate resistance to automation. Beyond the reflex gesture and the pre-established constants, there is a concealed area of magnetic freedom and an instinct to tame the beast, where the worker navigates, dreams often, invents regularly and resolves sometimes. The exhibition revises the poetry of gesture, more paradoxical and effervescent than uniform and systematic. Our gaze needs to wander sometimes, away from what is commonly understood and towards he who strays the least possible from what he can name and what he can see. A brand new short film made with the assistance of young director Nora Jaccaud will contain extracts from interviews and capture something of that often inexpressible and all too often ignored liaison that we find in our factories and production plants.