Brigitte Feyt and Jean Chrétien Favreau are part of this line of couples who draw together. We think, among others, of Robert and Alne Crumb or Alejandro and Pascale Jodorowski. The couple is then this synergy which transforms the heavy reality of two egos into a common imagination. The transmutation remains mysterious, its intensity depends on the emotional understanding, on what precisely caused these two beings to meet and love each other. It is a mutual understanding that is beyond comprehension. The drawings of 2 bear witness to this fruitful union. Those of Brigitte Feyt and Jean-Chrétien Favreau are created without initial intention but under the impulse of the gesture, then gradually of the judgment, through an impulse/reflection dialectic. There is no rivalry but a reciprocal welcome, astonished and kind, and a fusion of wonder at recognizing meaning in the formless, in the Doodling of the beginning. The two artists create for our eyes a common world that is poetic, psychedelic, intense, violent, sexual, organic, dynamic, biomorphic, protean, a world impossible without the level of relationship that they have been able to create between them over the years. Violaine Boisivon says that it is her hands that model, as if they were detached from any intention, from any project and from the outside gaze that punctuates her. This is the confession of all the great intuitives, gestural artists overwhelmed by the dazzlingness of their gestures. Violaine Boisivon and her hands produce earthen sculptures frozen in suspended movement whose expression is that of a powerful and complex interior life. The patina of his sculptures, which combines several techniques, contributes on certain pieces to an intuitive gestural painting, a colorfield which by saturating the form gives it a more meditative dimension. There are artists who create a world. Violaine Boisivon is one of these artists: her sculptures, like so many avatars of herself, dialogue with a poetic and pictorial narration, most often funny, and from which torment if not violence are not excluded. Brigitte Feyt.
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