Ephemeral Eternity

Éternité Éphémère

Opening (Vernissage ): 7/31/2021 5pm -10pm (Welcome to experience time with us! )

Date: 08/01/21-08/09/21 10:00-18:00

Every Day (Tous Jours)

Exhibition Location(Lieu de l'exposition) : 1 Cité Griset, IESA Gallery, 75011 Paris

Description:

“Ephemeral Eternity” is an exhibition about experiencing the invisible passage of time through the chronoscope of an intimate dialogue between humans and nature. How can we understand the intervals of time within “Ephemerality and Eternity”? How can unexplainable perceptions of changes be transformed into a universal language of feelings? In this exhibition, nature is an active part symbolize the eternal life associated with the artist temporal body, the dialogue was draft from the essence of “breath”, which universal beings are shared equally, then flows to the body, the flesh and the fresh, it leaves an open ending with the formula of cancelling material information for the rebirth of interior forestation: the new language continues infinity conversations. Breath, body and language build up the tunnel to feel the sensitivity of time, beyond the present.

Created by May MENG

Presented Artists

“ Each breath generates a form of communication. In artist Thu Huong’s abstract ink drawings, following the natural energy of “Chi”, she applies every ink dip wave until the vanish of the breath and appears permeance of time: In and out, moments and settlements, the void and the full, yin and yang, experimenting the process of balancing between her personal life and artworks. “—Curator MAY MENG

Thu Huong Nguyen-Dufourmantelle

Peintre vivant et travaillant à Paris. Née au Vietnam et élevée en France, je porte en moi les contrastes de l’Orient et de l’Occident.
Sensible aux jeux de ces forces, je recherche dans ma vie et mon travail pictural un équilibre et une harmonie qui ne gomment ni la puissance de l’un ni la force de l’autre, mais au contraire exacerbent le contraste d’où jaillit la beauté de la vie…
Ainsi les dessins à l’encre de Chine alliant simplicité du médium - l’Eau - et complexité de la technique, difficilement maîtrisables, ou encore les peintures traduisant le choc puis l’alliance des formes et des couleurs; celles-ci naissent intuitivement en résonnance les unes aux autres, exprimant une conjugaison unique et harmonieuse des différences. Ce sont comme des parcelles d’imaginaire sensoriel et visuel précipitées dans la matière, il nous appartient ici de faire retourner notre être et nos œuvres de la dualité à l’unité originelle, afin de rééquilibrer les polarités…En tout Yin, il y a du Yang, en tout Yang il y a du Yin.
https://www.peinturethuhuong.com/

Painter Thu Huong was sharing the importance of leaving imagination for breath and balancing of her artworks. Photo/May

Artist Interview

“As the human body changes along ages, the natural body is impacted by seasons and environment. The rooted fragilities of facing uncertain changes over time, simulates the perpetual needs for protection, even for repair. Artist Charlotte Herben melted nature found objects into her sculptural human body figures, as a sign of healing and protection for each other, or a new form of being in the universe. The time marking on our body, the dialogue unites human and nature to share an everlasting strong force for caring.”—Curator MAY MENG

Charlotte Herben

Charlotte Herben est une artiste sculptrice, née au Pays Bas. Elle vit et travaille en région Parisienne.
En sortant des Beaux Arts de Paris, son parcours artistique se développe principalement avec des installations intérieures et extérieures. Utilisant toutes sortes de supports pour son expression artistique, elle se tourne vers la céramique. Son travail tourne autour du corps et sa relation avec la nature et les objets du quotidien. La fragilité du corps est accentuée par la perpétuelle nécessité de la réparation, et le besoin de protection. Elle nous brouille entre le vrai et le faux, la copie, l’empreinte et la complémentarité. « *C’est par le faux que le vrai se définit.*» Marcel Broodthaers
charlotteherben9@gmail.com
https://www.charlotteherben.com

Artist Charlotte was fixing and taking care of the “Lung” sculpture. Photo/May

Artist Interview

“Information and materialization overflood human life and extracts from nature, words are disappearing, the memories are reversed for preservation. Bearing the childhood nature remarks, Artist Cécile Bourdais developed a living “interior forest” series piece through papier mâché, with the “essence” of forming new silent languages to read and migrate a timeless conversation, from meaning to sensitivity, ephemeral words of ruins, eternal soul of roots. "— Curator May MENG

BW9A9853.2JPG.JPG — Cécile Bourdais

Sa matière première, journaux, vieux livres ou cahiers, est rudimentaire et elle aime expérimenter à partir de ce peu de chose destiné au rebut. La pâte à papier que je prépare est modelée, comprimée, sculptée. Les « rondelles » ou « demi-rondelles » sont la lettre d’un alphabet toujours en devenir. Elles sont assemblées, superposées, incrustées. Elles sont le cœur de formes qui se construisent lentement, entre végétal et minéral —les *Concrétions*, pierres de papier, les *Sillages*, bois fossile ou froissé géologique, les *Forêts d’intérieur*, reconstitutions boisées pour appartement. En corolaire, *Fragments* ou *Monuments* s’intéressent au texte imprimé. Apparemment travail de sape, puisque le texte est, ou bien supprimé ou bien découpé et réagencé, le procédé ne vise pas à la ruine mais plutôt à la célébration de la littérature et de la lecture. Ses livres sont muets, quelques lettres font surface ici et là. Ils sont la matérialisation d’une aura de l’écrit, le passage du sens au sensible. Car, que ce soit dans l’approche tactile de l’objet livre, dans l’expérience sensitive de la lecture ou dans ce que nous conservons de nos lectures au fil du temps, il s’agit toujours d’une expérience éminemment sensorielle.
https://cecilebourdais.fr/

Artist Cecile was explaining the nature as part of her life melt in her soul along with the invisible changes over time. Photo/May

Artist Interview

“The Ephemeral Film Room”

This concept was generated from the idea of “beyond the mind” by sending invitations to international artists and allowing them to participate remotely as a “Guest Artist” with the most ephemeral art medium “film”. Over seconds, over boundaries, over what begins and ends—Over Beings.

The selected artworks not only link closely to the exhibition, but also extend it with an open-ending dialogue---Time cannot be viewed, be expected, be tempted, be changed, and even be with. The way of displaying each film by four different time slots during the gallery day creates the unexpected and unexplained feelings that merged with visitors themselves which also distinguishes the experience from individuals. As the intention of the exhibition is not to guide spectators on how to experience time, instead to respect their experience, independently and equally.

Presented Guest Artists

**Dora Lionstone**

*1986 Potsdam, DE
Dora Lionstone is a visual artist and photographer who is driven by a fascination for ambiguities. She challenges the clear-cut perception of reality by combining different perspectives, materials and ideas, often blending analogue and digital techniques. With her work, she creates alternate realities as an invitation to dream and wonder, merging fact and fiction, science and imagination. Reaching into the layers of the subconscious, she wishes to discover hybrid realms where different points of view are no longer rigid and mutually exclusive but are shifting and merging. Where images help imagine the impossible and enter the liminal realms of a multi-faceted and wondrous world. Her work has been exhibited in FOAM and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam among several other exhibitions in Europe and she has been selected as GUP New Photo Talent 2021 and FRESH EYES European Talent 2021.
She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography. She has previously worked as a Software Engineer in Germany and holds a Master’s Degree in Media Informatics. She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
doralionstone.com @doralionstoned
Photo provided by the artist

The First Breath of the Earth

Photography, editing, sound and voice by Dora Lionstone. 2020

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‘The First Breath of the Earth’ is a cosmic short story about Earth as a living being, whose symbiosis with its inhabitants is threatened to get out of balance, while hope for a restart remains. A poetic meditation on cosmic consciousness, our re- lationship with Earth, and the cyclic nature of life. An im- mersive photographic movie that invites to contemplate and reflect.
The video is part of the project ‘Cosmic Stream’ and was first screened at PuntWG Amsterdam in January 2020. It was also shown during the Gerrit Rietveld Graduation Show and exhibit- ed at FOAM Museum Amsterdam. The essay was published on Next Nature Network in December 2020 (https://nextnature.net/maga- zine/story/2020/next-generation-dora-lionstone).
—Dora Lionstone

**VICTORIA PHAM**

Victoria Pham is an Australian multi-media installation artist, composer, writer and evolutionary biologist currently based in the United Kingdom. She currently is a PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. As a composer, she has studied with Carl Vine AO, Richard Gill OAM, Liza Lim and Thierry Escaich. Her compositional and sound-artist practice is represented by the Australian Music Centre as an Associate Artist. Pham has been commissioned by a number of institutions such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Samstag Museum of Art, Gallerie V (Cambridge) and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She has featured in several festivals from VIVID to Tilde to BLEED. Pham is currently the Artistic Director of artist-run initiative FABLE ARTS and is the host and producer for the podcast, DECLASSIFY.
As a researcher, Pham has published with institutions such as the Australian Museum and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. She has fieldwork experience in Australia, Mongolia and Sri Lanka and embarked on her solo fieldwork project in Moià at the Paleolithic site of Coves del Toll as an Olwen Tudor Jones Scholar (2018). Her specialisation is in prehistoric archaeo-acoustics and the evolution of music.
www.victoriaavpham.com @victoriaavpham
Photo by Daniel Pin

IMPRESSIONS (2017)

Video and sound work by Victoria Pham

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“Through light, shadow and motion, engage with the artist through fragments of images and sounds. Can you truly understand a person as a single being, or as a myriad impression? “ — Victoria Pham
Originally Commissioned by Maitland Regional Art Gallery for the SONANT BODIES EXHIBITION 2018

XIAOYIN XIE

Xiaoyin Xie (b. 1995) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Finding inspiration in architecture, Avant-garde fashion, psychology, and philosophy, her process-driven practice explores human consciousness and the extremes of order and chaos.
Xiaoyin was born in Chengdu, China and immigrated to Toronto, Canada at the age of five. In 2005, she moved to Irvine, California, a master-planned city where she experienced order, regiment, and uniformity at the personal and urban scale. These circumstances birthed her perpetual desire for divergence from the coercive collective consciousness, leading her to explore design, photography, film, figure skating, dance, and architecture.
www.xiaoyinxie.com
photo provided by the artist.

Abstract

Digital video, 0:54, 2021

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“A collage of frenetic energy. Subtle sound, catch it if you can.
This film investigates the fundamental nature of time itself. Static frames are linked into a sequence, thereby creating motion. A two-dimensional line over the dimension of time becomes more complex—able to take on intangible and abstract qualities, such as energy and emotion. Change becomes discernible. Is life then, as we experience it, not but a linking of frames over the dimension of time? " —Xiaoyin Xie

Music X Habitat X Art

From left to right: Amelie Jiang,Yaoyue Huang, Scott Sherman

Music X Habitat X Art is a collective founded on the idea of “classical performance as art installation” by Scott Sherman, Yaoyue Huang, and Amelie Jiang. Sherman and Huang are performing classical pianists based in the US, and Amelie Jiang is an exhibiting photographer and curator based in South China. Sherman also works in digital and art film media. MxHxA began its series “The Ascent of Movement Series MUSIC—ART—WORKS” in reaction to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their other projects include “Audible Light”, a classical performance & film installation of contemporary classical piano music, animations, digital art, and projections that interact with the performers throughout the program. MxHxA is dedicated to presenting classical and contemporary music in new and interdisciplinary ways to audiences, engaging them visually and aurally in a communal experience of classical music and art.

Learn more: Musichabitatart.com

Scott Sherman Bio Scottlowellsherman.com
Scott Sherman is an American pianist, composer, and artist who studies under the tutelage of Pianist Soyeon Kate Lee at the College-Conservatory of Music. Sherman is a co-artistic director of Music X Habitat X Art, an experimental art and classical performance collective. Sherman works in sculpture, video art/film, and installation practices. His recent film project, The Pianist’s Eyes, is a performance art film focusing on the visage of the performer, exploring both the relationship to the audience, music, and the performers face. His film project “Stillness” is a music video series focusing on presenting composer Hans Otte’s Das Buch der Klänge as an installation of sound and architecture. Sherman’s compositions were premiered for the 14th Competition d’Orleans in France. His compositions premiered in Portugal and in the United States in August 2020. He took part in the COVID Étude project, and the social outreach project “One World—One Family” The Carnival of The Animals with the New World Chamber Players in China. His recordings have been used for One-Minute Art publications in China. He was guest artist at the Porto Pianofest in Portugal. He has lectured and performed at Shantou University, Meilin Arts High School, 90.9 Classical Radio WGUC and The Cincinnati Art Museum.

Yaoyue Huang Bio Yaoyuehuang.com

Yaoyue Huang is a pianist whose initiative celebrates new music, lesser performed modern works, explores experimental and creative projects that challenge convention and aims to break away from the common performance practice. Huang also works with composer peers in premiering their works. She was recently awarded the Prix Alberto Ginastera from the 14th International Piano Competition of Orléans, where she premiered a newly composed work which she commissioned for the André Chevillion—Yvone Bonnaud composition prize. Huang is currently pursuing her DMA degree at the College-Conservatory of Music in the studio of pianist Soyeon Kate Lee. Huang is a co-artistic director with Scott Sherman of “Music X Habitat X Art”. She was also the co-artistic director of the 2019 Clara Schumann project in Shenzhen, her articles about Clara and Robert Schumann was published in different platform including the 2019 season of Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Amelie Jiang (爱美丽) Bio

Amelie Jiang is known for creating contemplative photographs upon a tension between black and white color. Her work series titled “Wood and Rock” focuses on the poetic expression of “lifeless creatures” and the inner stable conditions of “all things” as described by Taoist philosophy. Amelie’s work aims to find the countless ties between “things” and “creatures” through her medium. Jiang’s works have been shown in numerous institutions and galleries including solo exhibition FORGET, solo exhibition, Chensee Gallery, Guangzhou China (2019); AMELIE, solo exhibition, SE Gallery, Shenzhen China (2017); Pure and Vibrant, solo exhibition, Southern China Culture Research Institute, Guangzhou China (2016); selected group exhibition including New Trend Power, Shenzhen China (2021); A ROAM OF MIND, The 3rd Shenzhen International Photography Exhibition, Design Society, V&A Cooperation Pavilion, Shenzhen China (2019); Dimensions and Elements, The Contemporary Female Art in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao, Luohu Museum, Shenzhen China (2019); Empty Seat: Chinese Conceptual Photography, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok Thailand (2017); recent outdoor project as group member of Music X Habitat X Art, The Horizonless Rive, Guangzhou China (2021).

The Horizonless River

Art video, 7’25’’, 2021

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The Ascent of Movement Series MUSIC—ART—WORKS, is a series born from the marriage between classical music performance and visual art. Music X Habitat X Art’s works challenge the contemplation of classical music through the lens of the subconscious, asking the viewers to challenge their preconceived notions of what music and art can be on a journey beyond the familiar and beyond any cultural or state lines.
This fourth film from Music X Habitat X Art’s series The Ascent of Movement, features Sherman’s performance of William Bolcom’s colossal Piano Étude Nr. 12, Hymne à l’amour. Five distinct animated “windows” together create the art film. Amelie Jiang’s photography was selected in coordination with the theme of the Étude. Her photography is manipulated, cut, and re-imagined by Huang, and finally animated by Sherman. This film seeks to transport the viewer into the continually mesmerizing and undulating heartbeat of the musical line that never ceases; an unrelenting transient prayer that is ever-present for the listener to experience. The film reflects the musical structure of the Étude, and shares with the viewer the structure through visual elements. The film reflects that the music never truly begins, and never truly ends—like the wheel of eternal life. Visuals of nature, animals, bamboo, the concept of flight, and the rippling of water are all visual metaphors of our collective human existence, and the film depicts our deepest subconscious’s struggle of processing of the world around us. This film is a heartfelt prayer, and it was born from the need to offer this prayer to the world during these separating times.
The struggle of consciousness’ ascent toward meaning and light is like a lotus flower which struggles to birth itself through the muck of the pond bed, to finally lay itself on the water's surface and bloom. —Music X Habitat X Art