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"Climats intimes" (Intimate Climes)
Cinematic wall commissioned by Hines Prelude and Gecina, 2008. Photographs and screen printings on glass with thermodynamic ink. 24 x 6 meters. On the building « The Angle » designed by architect Jean-P.aul Viguier, Ile Seguin /Rives de Seine, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Video link : Oeuvre finale HD 720 (converti).mov
Behind the smooth surface of the glass, fragments of text and handwritten annotations can be glimpsed, appearing and disappearing as the temperature varies.
This ‘random’ staging is due to the use of thermochromic pigments that alter the colour of the ink until it disappears. Also, depending on the time of day or the season, the photographs are accompanied by texts of varying density.
This is a completely new innovation in the field of art and architecture, which led the designers to combine and test at length the skills of talented craftsmen working on the creation of a single work : screen printers, thermochromic ink professionals, and glass and metal specialists. A unique and mysterious work in which the public is invited to develop their own cinematic project based on the images and fragments of text.
( Press file, written by Céline Saraiva).
See on this work : Article "Ink", by Yehuda E Safran in An A to Z of Ink in Architecture, published by Michelle Formnabai, Columbia University editions, New York, 2013.
Press file :
Plaquette oeuvre murale ML CAZIN- Climats Intimes.pdf"La bascule" (Seesaw)
Installation at Espace Pasteur as part of the presentation of companies from Nord/Pas-de-Calais by the Regional Council, Avignon Festival 2003. Commissioned by the Nord/Pas-de-Calais region. In partnership with Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts and Doublet. Technique: PVC tarpaulin – 18 x 3.5 metres. Digital printing from silver negatives.
The Theater companies from the North are presented at L'Espace Pasteur, during the Avignon Festival. At the request of the Region, the aim of the intervention is to give this venue a special identity for the duration of the festival. The idea is to visually highlight the event, without giving literal information, as a poster would. There is the courtyard, the harsh July sun and the organisational habits that this summer activity has already developed over the past few years. "People walk through here, for safety reasons it is impossible to... the tables are better in the shade, the electricity supply is limited..." Above the gymnasium, the organisers usually put up a huge, light grey tarpaulin to isolate the room. It was this tarpaulin that I used to create the intervention: it will be a large, simple gesture that responds to the architecture of the place. Despite their spectacular size and outdoor presentation, the images, even when enlarged, do not reveal their secrets. While maintaining the format of posters or advertisements, they keep a clear distance from this visual form. Their presence creates a special atmosphere, but paradoxically, the exchange they establish with the viewer is somewhat discreet. It is through repeated glances that the viewer will slowly be able to decipher them and gradually imagine the narrative possibilities they contain.
"Les histoires de la tache" ( Stain' stories)
Installation, photographic prints on glass, 2003.
Artistic Journey, From 8 February to 30 March 2003 - 6 venues in Old Lille, exhibitions organised by the Artmateur association, with the support of the City of Lille.
"For several years now, Marie-Laure Cazin's photographic work has focused on the themes of desire and mystery. It consists of small scenes featuring characters, usually in darkness, whose presence she reveals using a torch. Blinded, exposed, betrayed, the characters, as if extracted from their dreams, reveal latent gestures and desires. This impression of latency gives the viewer the opportunity to imagine the narrative suggested by the images." Artmateur.
"Marie-Laure Cazin, who has installed her transparent images on the door and in certain framed spaces of the Lille patisserie, tells the story of the stain. A stain of light that directs the gaze towards characters staged in a darkroom. One can undoubtedly see a form of symbolism here that opens a few doors on the way we perceive reality, dreams or the unconscious. The spot and its halo of light reveal a part of the truth, a bit like a violation of privacy committed with the help of an infrared device... disturbing." La Voix du Nord
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