Loris Gréaud at Domaine de Frapotel
On Saturday 13, multidisciplinary artist Loris Gréaud inaugurated the installation /dʌv/ at the Domaine de Frapotel as part of the “Mondes Nouveaux” programme, directed by Bernard Blistène and commissioned by the Ministry of Culture. It is thus in this context that Loris Gréaud has taken over the Villa Weil, originally designed by Jean Dubuisson in 1966 and renovated by architects Dominique Perrault and Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost.
Below the ground level, and accessible through a door concealed from sight, lies a basalt funerary slab in dim light, which reveals a naturalized dove resting within. Informed by an anthropological perspective, the French artist makes the history of the Earth and that of mankind converge in his work, disclosing the disorder that human activities cause. An underground journey that shelters, symbolically and in a tiny corner, scars and traces of irreversible ecological and social upheavals.
An installation that could be described as visual poetry and which is accompanied by a unique soundtrack titled “Orion, soundtrack for an underground moment”. The Orion constellation, a celestial trop of immortal stars, was the inspiration behind this sonic composition that completes this initiatory journey into the core of the stone.
Text: Emma Grossi
Photos: Michael Huard
