[Saint-Nazaire]

Ellie Ga Solo Exhibition of Carré Octagone Cercle at Le Grand Café
June 10, 2015, 2:00 pm
at Le Grand Café

Ellie Ga is a part of the line of artists, sometimes described as iconographers, who make "a work of re-membering" the past, and who work with history considered as a forgetful, partial and incomplete material that requires constant present-day reworking to draw new meaning from it. The artist nevertheless holds herself at a distance from these "room-based" practices in the sense that she goes back to the field of perception: her projects, which are always elaborated over the long term, manifest an impressive faculty for immersion that informs her life as much as her work. By turns historian, explorer, archaeologist and essayist, Ellie Ga carries out different scientific researches and fieldwork with the aim of discerning the interstices and lacunas occurring in the porous structure of history. Her installations and performances intersect, continually oscillating between averred historical fact and fabulous conjecture. We could therefore argue that the most adequate description of her approach would be the essay form - a flexible and experimental work in which ideas are drawn as much from the scientific field as from the poetic and in which the author does not pretend to have exhausted the subject. The exhibition runs until August 1. More information available here.