Constellation (2023) Sculpture by Violaine Laveaux

Plastic artist
Lives between Paris and Carcassonne.
Exhibits in France and abroad.
1982 / Master of plastic arts Bordeaux III
1982/1984 / Accademia di Belle Arti, volume section, Venice
1986 / Master Ensad, Paris, Art space, volume option
René Perrot Drawing Prize
Violaine Laveaux continues an installation work with natural elements (branches, pigments, ink, wax, raw earth, talc, charcoal, paraffin) which give her this freedom of writing or drawing and signs are one. She unrolls there the breadcrumb trail of a small cosmogony, childhood memories between mythology and tales; small glossary of a personal grammar in which animal figures, figures of the sky and plant materials come together. Part of his installation work draws from the register of forms and mythological stories offered by the figures of the constellations and more particularly the ambivalent animal figures such as the wolf, the bear and the raven, deified or demonized according to the cultures, and whose face to face confronts us with our dreams, our aspirations and our contradictions ... When the humanity of animals makes us think about the animality of men ... It has made the sky a fertile crucible, source and pretext at the same time, for to decline a work of drawing, volume, in space, on the wall, on the ground, in connection with the architectural and sometimes historical configuration of the place. Each installation is built for the place itself.
“Violaine Laveaux's installations have the taste of childhood and the scale of the vessels of the great discoverers of botanical poetry. They invite to an exploration in a time and a space, where land, air and water no longer have the borders that we know them, as soon as we reach the shores of adulthood. There, the earth is still liquid, water can be air and air, who knows? The air of nothing, Violaine's words and signs are compasses. They take on the paces, colors and tastes of nature to guide the attentive walker. In order to rediscover its flavor, we must put on our boots of non-lieu, sharpen our glances of greedy, put our footsteps in the footsteps of the artist and let her wind up the clock. So can the countdown begin ... "
Brigitte Benneteu
Curator at the Château-Musée du Cayla, 2016

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1957
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists