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<strong>Les</strong> Prairies's artists<br />
MARION VERBOOM<br />
Charte, 2012. installation view. Photography : Marion Verboom.<br />
Marion Verboom's sculptures are hybrids of forms borrowed from <strong>the</strong> history of sculpture,<br />
from architecture and geology, but given unity by <strong>the</strong> materials. The source of her work<br />
is drawing, which has enabled her to create a vocabulary of shapes and to gain a more<br />
open un<strong>de</strong>rstanding of sculpture, freed of questions of function and feasibility. This<br />
freedom enables her to use a fragment as a self-contained form at <strong>the</strong> same time as a<br />
part of a whole in <strong>de</strong>licately balanced assemblages. Her working practice is redolent of<br />
grafting, both conceptually and physically. She melds figurative patterns and minimal<br />
sculpture, architecturally inspired forms and sedimentary concretions. In her works Marion<br />
Verboom seems to be exploring two opposing concepts of architecture: John Ruskin's<br />
recommendations on ornamentation and Adolf Loos for <strong>the</strong> functionalist aspect. Yet in any<br />
one sculpture she manages to avoid both by making it nei<strong>the</strong>r functional nor <strong>de</strong>corative.<br />
Agger takes its name from <strong>the</strong> Latin word for a kind of fortification in <strong>the</strong> form of mounds of<br />
earth at <strong>the</strong> time of <strong>the</strong> Romans. The exhibition consists of modules shaped by <strong>the</strong> impact<br />
of light on <strong>the</strong>ir contours; it oscillates between <strong>the</strong> organic fluctuation of a surface and <strong>the</strong><br />
rigour of a geometric composition, expanding and contracting within <strong>the</strong> dimensions of <strong>the</strong><br />
allotted space. It is a composition, a cosmogony that involves nature, <strong>the</strong> human body, <strong>the</strong><br />
implement and construction. It is a "land or a landscape mo<strong>de</strong>lled by human hand".<br />
A. L. tr. J.H.<br />
Born in 1983 in Nantes (France), lives and works in Paris<br />
(France).<br />
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