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Elodie Seguin
Born in 1984, Elodie Seguin lives and works in Paris.
She has been represented by the Jocelyn Wolff gallery since 2010.
Her sensitive and conceptual practice concerns painting as much as sculpture and drawing, most often taking the form of in situ installation. Her work is written through exposition. Until 2022, she has bound her practice to one principle: never presenting the same piece twice and proposing a specific intervention for each exhibition invitation. This first chapter closed with the exhibition The missing thing, before devoting a year to color in Madrid at the Casa de Velazquez in 2023.
In the logic of a researcher, she circulates notions such as:
Potentiality, absence, unity, transparency, light, perception, subtraction, the unfinished, production, the poetics of technique.
This research involves language, synthesis, objects which are also ideas.
The colors, dimensions, proportions and shapes she uses, although minimal, summon reality and its conventions.
Her materials are deliberately rudimentary but their treatment produces an illusion which reveals their underestimated qualities.
Extremely precise attention is paid to the sensitivity of surfaces and spaces, to their presence, to their borrowing.
In its contraction the painting must take place.
Elodie Seguin’s work has been exhibited in institutions such as the MACBA in Buenos Aires, the MUDAM, the French Cultural Center in Milan, the Ricard Foundation, the Lafayette Anticipations space, the Frac Bretagne, or the MUCEM.
The Look Loop ring series was designed in relation to his solo exhibition of the same name, currently on view at the Museum PEAC in Freiburg, Germany until March 9, 2025.
These rings are flat like little paintings that you wrap around your fingers. They are simple and unique depending on the characters that carry them. It is transparency that assumes this dialogue… Some are reversible, all can be opened, put back flat… There are many models and yet each person quickly guesses the one that best suits them.
“I only wear rings. I think of them as makeup and clues. I like choosing them scrupulously as much as forgetting them on my fingers. I wanted to be able to confront and observe this material as often as possible to reflect on it. It has become a “portable” part of my exhibition.”
Elodie Seguin, december 2024
Rings
Fluorescent vinyl
and colored plastic snap button
Numbered rings
MiniMasterpiece, 2024
Rings
Fluorescent vinyl
and colored plastic snap button
Numbered rings
MiniMasterpiece, 2024
Rings
Fluorescent vinyl
and colored plastic snap button
Numbered rings
MiniMasterpiece, 2024