Formes Vivantes
03.07-26.07

A joint exhibition by Amélie Caussade and Antonin Detemple.
Grand Tour is located 123, rue de Turenne, Paris 3 and open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 6pm.

Amélie Caussade
Antonin Detemple

Choreography of the living and narratives in motion

With a title evocative of ritual and metamorphosis, Forme Vivantes brings together the practices of Amélie Caussade and Antonin Detemple around the same breath: that of the living, matter and invisible narratives that run through our times. Their works interact like two bodies in motion, exploring the links between ancestral forms, contemporary gestures and sensitive otherness.

For Amélie Caussade, the shape of the X becomes a plastic matrix, a fundamental symbol of the living. At the crossroads of body, space and cosmos, it structures sculptures, weavings and installations. Working in gypsum, a recyclable, soft, luminous material, in a slow, conscious temporality, the artist elaborates a veritable ecology of gesture. Every fold, every tension becomes a language, a breath. This figure of X, somewhere between science, memory and dance, evokes both chromosomes and the axes of the world: a shifting script, a crack in our perception of reality.

Antonin Detemple explores our place within the living world through hybrid installations combining spontaneous plants, artificial light, biological archives and speculative narratives.

Inspired by Baptiste Morizot’s Manières d’être vivant, he questions invisible forms of interdependence and the links we maintain, or have lost, with the non-human world.

His works trace an archaeology of the future: a world where plants migrate, where materials dialogue, where ecological memory is regenerated in fiction.

Both blur the boundaries between art and nature, science and poetry, heritage and invention. Their works draw a sensitive cartography of our present. In tune with the tensions of the Anthropocene, Formes Vivantes sketches out a fertile intuition: that art, as a space for attention and listening, can still re-enchant our relationship with the living.

– Manon Canto