Estelle Majani

Like ghosts passing through walls or wandering around corners, Estelle's works explore transitory places, the threshold zones that crisscross our contemporary spaces. Through sculpture, installation, printed images, or poetic text, the artist explores these particular places that she calls "in-between places." How can we look at these liminal spaces, at the edge of our perceptions, which we use out of habit but no longer even notice? Reappropriating the objects that divide and partition our interiors and restrict our movements, such as walls, doors, or elevators, Estelle reveals and makes tangible the blind spots of our enclosed environments. Oscillating between presence and absence, the artist creates breakthrough zones into neglected spaces. Floating or blurred forms emerge in reality, as if straight out of a fault. They seem fragmented, suspended in the indeterminate space-time of the gallery. The context of the white cube is no longer a simple support for the works but becomes a subject of research in its own right, contributing to the heavy and ominous atmosphere of the pieces. The forms and materials used, such as chainmail or industrial objects (tiles, glass, metal bars or PVC curtains) refer to murky, unsituated places, but which can recall controlled spaces, charged with latent violence, such as slaughterhouses, factories, or even the medical environment. The images and objects, although familiar, fall into strangeness. Wandering in a limbo with white walls and crackling neon lights, the viewer wanders like a ghost through abandoned body parts.