Chloé Bourguigon:
Love or what’s left of it
by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
Reviewer
For Cloe Bourguigon love does not leave. Not totally. Like tobacco. Not totally. It’s a disease, an addicition, an alcoholism. As tobacco. Loving does not save.
However Bourguignon puts up images about it. Talking about it is useless. Instead of this way the artist shows it between despair and disenchantment
She draws such a feeling with a certain detachment and humor. Without pathos and thanks to the magic of black and white in a minimalist way.
These notebooks evoke the turns, the detours, the embrace of love. And sometimes some words that are meant to be sweet.
The artist does not stretch on the sand of bitterness where the lovers become our allies of what was. For they have not always been so old. And devious towards each other.
L’amour ou ce qui en reste – Cloé Bourguignon
Pour Cloé Bourguignon l’amour ne se quitte pas. Pas totalement. C’est une maladie, une addiction, un alcoolisme. Un tabac. Aimer ne sauve pas.
Néanmoins, Cloé Bourguigon met des images dessus. Il ne faut pas en parler mais le montrer entre désespoir et désenchantement.
Elle dessine un tel sentiment avec un certain détachement et humour. Sans pathos et grâce à la magie du noir et blanc et de manière minimaliste.
Ces carnets évoquent les tours, les détours, les étreintes de l’amour. Et parfois certains mots qui se veulent doux.
L’artiste ne s’étends ur le sable de l’amertume où les amants deviennent nostalgiques de ce qui fut. Car ils n’ont pourtant pas toujours été si vieux. Et sournois l’un envers l’autre.
Cloé Bourguigon, Boîte 5 carnets, Maison Dagoit, Rouen, 2019, 18,00 €.
About the author:
On Location, FRANCE: Contributing editor Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret writes about music and the visual arts. Born in 1947 in Chambery (France), he was a professor of communication at the Université de Savoie. He has published several essays, mainly about Samuel Beckett and painting, and short fiction, most recently “Labyrinthes,” Editions Marie Delarbre. You can read more of his articles in Ragazine by searching here.
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