EXPO ‘Rencontre’ – DS Galerie, Bruxelles (BE) – 10-28 Oct. 2014
DS Galerie Bruxelles , Jose Bravo FOTO and Nelly Van Oost: « Rencontre«
Vernissage le 10 Octobre à 18h ! Opening 10 of october, 18pm!
« Un face à face dynamique où l’énergie de l’un est face à la relation de l’autre !
La créatrice de bijoux Nelly Van Oost inspire un photographe. Il photographie, comme il lance une balle, dans le quotidien. Elle se laisse prendre et renvoie la balle en créant des objets de « connections ». Portés, à même le corps, ces bijoux prennent amplitude et révèlent tout leur sens: l’alchimie des rencontres puisque l’or apparaît bel et bien au contact des autres.
Jacques Verdier dégage du tonus face au raffinement des bijoux de Nelly Van Oost et à la sobriété des photographies de Jose Bravo. Les toiles flamboient: sur une multitude d’images déchirées, superposées, l’artiste fait tomber un trait juste, un geste pictural simple, une ponctuation là où il veut… Et ce n’est pas la moindre des surprises…«
Rencontre 3 – 2012 – necklace
Nelly van Oost – 2014 – broche « rencontre 6″
Rencontre 4, 2012, necklace, gold, paint, new silver, photo Elvira Golombosi
The act of bringing contemporary jewellery creator Nelly Van Oost and photographer Jose Bravo together with visual artist Jacques Verdier constitutes a Meeting. For Nelly and Jose it is also a Response, the outcome of their artistic search across our day-to-day living spaces, which are themselves rife with meetings. To these two, photography is both a tool and a response, emphasising the experience of relationships.
As a critical, self-reflexive practice, contemporary jewellery tends to shed the notion of preciousness and to constantly question the body as both subject and limit. Through her sculptural, expansionist language, Nelly pursues a relational aesthetic and pushes back a little further the limits that she has already explored.
How can the impalpable be rendered? How can it be given form? To her, it is just meetings, moments, situations – not yet thoughts. Offloading and forgetting about the camera…
To him, it is about capturing the essence of these connections. Following that essence, watching it, studying its behaviour, photographing it. So Jose’s snapshots help Nelly to shape the immaterial. To create forms that are both ethereal and weighted. Then to offload again and forget about…
In response to this exchange, which began in 2011, she uses connective pieces, tailored to live models, as symbols of linkage to the vessels of our intimate universes. When worn, these pieces reveal their full meaning: the alchemy of meetings, as gold glistens when it comes into contact with others.
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