"Sticky, sticky, viscous": an exhibition by Clara Lou Villechaise and Rémi Galtier

The title refers less to a quality of material than to the contemporary condition of forms; that which sticks, overflows, persists, and resists any clear separation. Rémi Galtier's sculptures suspend use and unfold organic volumes, almost erotic in the Bataillean sense, while Clara Lou Villechaise's landscapes transform nature into a saturated simulacrum, traversed by viscous and toxic flows, echoing Morton's notions of the hyperobject and Baudrillard's of the simulacrum.

Brought together in a minimalist setting, these works by emerging artists explore the friction between matter and image, between object and volume. "Sticky, sticky, viscous" thus offers a sensitive and critical space where the gaze does not merely observe: it makes contact, it adheres, it is permeated by the energy and excess of the work.

Text by Salomé Moindjie-Gallet.