La sacre du printemps, 2023

Caroline de Boissieu  

Three moments of the same impulse inspired by the great German choreographer, Pina Bausch.

Young women run, dance, search for one another—barely sketched silhouettes that the wind seems to carry away, emerging from a shifting background where water, vegetation, and light merge. The starting point is photographic, but the precision of the original image immediately dissolves into the evanescence of its contours, giving birth to a dreamlike and poetic world.

The work is akin to a palimpsest: photography, acrylic, and ink—all techniques are employed to give the project its full expression. The white dress, the red one, the ochre one, the turquoise one—each figure carries its season, its energy, its pivotal moment. Everything is movement, flight, metamorphosis, in that tension so dear to the artist between the lightness of the gesture and the depth that is only revealed later.

As in a dream, presence reflects absence. The viewer, subtly invited to project themselves into the motif, moves from one panel to another as in a great landscape painting, on the borders of the conscious and the unconscious — carried by this consecration of life which celebrates the eternal return of spring.

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The artwork is mounted on dibond, a material widely used in contemporary art which is very light relative to its rigidity (approximately 2mm).