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Painting, Ink on Paper
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Fantasy Islands or "Les paradis imaginaires" is a set of imaginary places hand-made with sumi ink on Xuan paper, using the Japanese technique of "floating ink" : suminagashi. This work reflects on the Western gaze on islands and how people always overlay a certain fantasy on them being "paradise on earth" and "dream-like". These paintings I make are here to fill the thirst people have for "discovery" by generating waves of them. It uses the pareidolia effect to create islands, atolls and bits of land. The technique used, and the medium it's made on, are meant to feed this fiction/narrative by giving it a deceitful feeling of old and foreign. My work is often a play on deceiving people's nurture and their expectations. Here I use ink to rise islands on the surface of this flat paper, whereas on another work, I wipe places off of 3D maps using white paint. Each painting is signed with my monogram.
Original Created:
2019
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Painting:
Ink on Paper
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
11.8 W x 15.7 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:
Black
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Not applicable
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Alexandre Erre is a Paris based artist. Born in 1990, he is native from New-Caledonia/Kanaky where he lived for about 17 years. He studied at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Grenoble and then at École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Through the use of installations, sculptures, videos, photographs, interventions in public spaces, performances and engraving, he dissects the codes and norms to question and create memories, tales and fictions. Alexandre Erre’s practice revolves around his native island, New-Caledonia, and broadly speaking around the processes of exoticization, racializing, gendering, domination or cultural hierarchy. His questioning, at the crossroads of gender, sexuality and community, leans on his personal background and summons his insularity and his diasporic status.
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