Progresser en monochrome, 2023

Cindy Belaud  

Experimentation

Saying that nothing is finished, we know the beginning, we never know the end, not even that of his life. Start with an instruction, a desire, a desire. An idea that we can also call an image, trying to make it our own and visible to others. We do with it, we make it go.

The form

To think that an image is above all a component of forms: line, line, point. Define its contours, its voids, its solids, its materials. From there, anything is possible, the game is endless.

The colour

Saying that color is not seduction, it is an artistic, social, political and psychological act. Dismantle preconceptions, question your limits and find new ways of looking. To perceive differently.

Gesture

To think that production induces an action, an external movement of the body. It is to take into account its fallibilities. Keep the possibility of making a mistake, of accepting the welcome accident. Stay spontaneous.

Cindy Belaud, experiments, manhandles and questions: the form, the pattern, the medium.

His creative act is never limited, doing, doing again, doing always, despite mistakes and accidents. Cindy Belaud's works are stages of reflection. Experimentation and spontaneity are intrinsic to her plastic production which is expressed on paper, during the making of printed objects, in screen printing or with monumental shapes on the wall… For this plastic artist, experimentation supposes rigor. A creation protocol that must be invented and imposed on itself. Its rigor allows poetic freedom. Cindy Belaud's works are exercises with simple forms: an immediate formalism. Yet this is where the viewer must observe a movement of retreat and let himself be convinced by the exchange that is proposed to him. Cindy Belaud wishes to transmit and provide a loan to think.

Cindy Belaud, lives and works in Nantes and Rennes. Graduated from a Research Master in Plastic Arts - Practices and Poetics from the University of Rennes2 in 2015. She is part of the questions of the Support / Surface movement and adheres to the modern and radical values of the Bauhaus School. Finally, she is inspired by her contemporaries: Bruno Peinado, Damien Poulain, Meg Hopkin, Palefroi, Formes Vives, Momo Studio…

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