MÉLANCOLIE DU MOELLON
Camille Ayme
Opening reception: Saturday, 17 November, 4-8pm
Exhibition: November 17 – December 22, 2018
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Camille AYME
Mélancolie du moellon
Exhibition: 17 November – 22 December, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, 17 November from 4pm onwards
For her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Camille Ayme presents a body of work focusing on various elements such as construction materials (in her 2016 show, entitled Sédimentalisme, the artist had combined fossil fuels with nostalgia). Camille Ayme presents her research on natural and man-made elements.
The exhibition tells a story of original elements and their various finished forms. In the geographical area of Greater Paris, 40 million-year-old white rock formations can be found within mountain ranges, where diggers the size of elephants pull loads of raw material out of the ground. The remains one of the last two rainforests in Europe is located southeast of Sarajevo. The forest completely encircles a monolithic white structure, faceted like a gemstone. Along the road, a string of houses can be seen in their grey brutality.
The association between construction materials and raw elements (steel and gypsum, brick and enamel, paper and pine) never ceases to question their well-established relationship. Despite their physical absence, humans are omnipresent in the unfinished state of half-built, abandoned buildings.
Mélancolie du moellonis an exhibition that analyzes how natural elements become construction materials, suppressed forests and fields littered with cinder blocks.
Biography :
Camille Ayme graduated from the Ecole d’Architecture of Paris La Villette, followed by the Ecole d’Art of Paris-Cergy.
Her work in fine art employs components of modern cities and as well as mobility.
After her participation in the Salon of Montrouge (2012) where she presented aerial photography of a nearly-empty American city, California City, she was then the winner of the Delano-Aldrich Grant (2013) at the American Institute of Architecture. Her research is thus based on the typology of American highways as well as the deformation of urban structures. This vision of translated landscapes is presented in Paysages Résilients, whereas What Else Is Therecombined road trip imagery with that of the automobile industry. This research lead to an exhibition with Nelson Bourrec Carter, entitledHere With Me, presented in 2015 at the Galerie Ygrec, in Paris. It was also part St. Etienne’s Biennale du Designin the group show entitled, Tu nais, tuning, tu meurs. Winner of the 2017 photography commission entitled Les regards du Grand Paris, organized by the Centre national des arts plastiques(CNAP) and the Ateliers Medicis, she used artificial light inside of contructed pavillions to evoke a forgotton World War 1 story. In November 2018, she embarked on an ongoing thesis, co-led by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles and the University of Aix-Marseille, which explores the landscapes of quarries.
Camille AYME
Born in 1983, Saint-Etienne, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
SOLO SHOWS
2018 Mélancolie du moellon, Galerie Virginie Louvet, France
2016 Sédimentalisme, Galerie Virginie Louvet, France
2015 Here with Me, Galerie Ygrec, Paris, France
2013 Salton Sea, Albert Kahn Museum, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
GROUP SHOWS
2017 « You really know where you are. For the First Time in History », Unicorn Center for Art, Beijing, China
« Nous n’aurons de cesse d’explorer », Double V Galerie, Marseille, France
2016 A Great Event is In The Making. But No One Has Noticed, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
Superfetish, Ying Space, Beijing, China
The Materialist Postscript, Galerie Philine Cremer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 Embassies, Refugees, Manifestoes, Proyecto Casamaria, Montevideo, Uruguay
0.10, Unircorn Center for Art, Beijing, China
Paper Manifestoes II, The Factory Beijing China
60ème Salon de Montrouge, Salon d’art contemporain, Montrouge, France
Twisted Modernist Fantasies, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
The Sublime Object, Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Tu nais, Tunin, Tu meurs, Biennale du Design, Saint-Etienne, France
2014 The Map and the Territory, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
Hermeneutics of a room, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 Beyond the Ornament, LX Factory – triennale d’architecture, Lisbon, Portugal
2012 57ème Salon de Montrouge, salon d’art contemporain, Montrouge, France
2011 Dysfonctionnements, installation, Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
Via cinéma, installation, ENSAPLV, Paris, France
EDUCATION
2012 MAt, DNSEP, ENSAPC, Cergy-Pontoise, France
2010 Architecture degree, mention recherche, ENSAPLV, Paris, France
RESIDENCIESAND AWARDS
2017 Laureate of the national photographic command Regards du Grand Paris of the CNAP
2014/15 Residency at la Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, France
2013 Laureate of the Delano-Aldrich grant, American Institute of Architects (A.I.A)
PUBLICATION/ PRESS/ COLLECTION
2016 Expositions : Camille Ayme sur les traces des villes fantômes, les Inrocks, april 9, 2016 by Louise des Ligneris
2015 Tu nais, Tuning, Tu meurs, exhibition catalogue, Biennale du Design, Saint-Etienne
2013 Un arrière-gout de parados, exhibition catalogue of the Albert Kahn museum, Bernard Chauveau, edition, Paris, France
2012 Carhenge ou la fin d’un rêve americain, essai + photographies, Caragisme, Magazine, Issue 3
2012 L’absence du conducteur, essai + photographies, Caragisme, Magazine Issue 2, 2012
Catalogue of the 5th Salon of Montrouge, ed. Particules, text by Lise Guehenneux, May 2012
Les Inrocks, C’est du Béton, décembre 2018 par Alice Pfeiffer
