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ELÉA JEANNE SCHMITTER, Etude du Soleil à travers la paupière, Essai au recueillementYear 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Dimensions 27 x 38 cm
Edition 5
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Born in 1993, Eléa Schmitter is a French visual artist based in Paris.
After a BFA in International Public Law in France, she changed course to pursue her interest in photography, as a tool to both inform and deceive. She graduated from the fine art faculty of Concordia University in 2018 and has exhibited her work widely in Europe and North America.
Schmitter may be viewed not only as a photographer, but also as a conceptual artist who employs performance, research, appropriation and immersion among other techniques to explore questions that interest her. She often examines the power and structure of secrecy and the precarious nature of truth, but also the irrational and the unexpected. Underlying all her projects is the notion of a journey in search of utopian goals of true love, spirituality and political ideology.
At Château La Coste, Schmitter reflected on the contemplative nature of Paul Matisse’s artwork. The light of the sun observed through her eyelids evokes a moment of serenity and reflection, sentiments which can be also found at Matisse’s Meditation bell.
Artists Sélection Kourtrajmé
Name of the work Etude du Soleil à travers la paupière, Essai au recueillement
Year 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Edition 5
Dimensions 27 x 38 cm
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
Artwork
(Study of the sun through an eyelid, attempt at contemplation) is a testament to a simple moment, eyes closed, I observe my eyelids drenched in sunlight. In direct contact with my retina, they are what is closest to it, just as the sun is the farthest object from my eye at this time. Their distances mix, and they become one in a poetically shared horizon. Eyes closed, this time is for oneself, the consideration of a reflection requiring rest, a response to the work of Paul Matisse which invited my contemplation. The mid-october afternoon light which began to dip behind the forest, the light of the vines still imprinted on my corneas, the will to transcribe a moment of humility, serenity, recognition. This work was imagined beginning with and responding to the experience at Chateau La Coste in October 2020. “