Box set including a series of 39 plates produced using risography on Fine Art paper by the Chevalme Sisters at the 6b risography workshop in Saint-Denis
Limited edition of 7 copies
The Chevalme Sisters Hors-champ, 1
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Box set including a series of 39 plates produced using risography on Fine Art paper by the Chevalme Sisters at the 6b risography workshop in Saint-Denis
Limited edition of 7 copies
For several years, the Chevalme sisters have been creating a body of work centred around French colonial history that puts ‘archives to work (1)’. Conducted from a dual perspective - archival research and restoration-transposition of the archive through drawing - the project is halfway between scientific and artistic work, with drawing as its backbone. Producing images from colonial archives is not insignificant. Through this gesture, they restore them and bring them back to contemporary life, where a new narrative is reconstructed.
Their use of archival images creates a new iconographic space in which the past and the present merge, intertwine and collide, initiating narratives that are more representative of society, a kind of futuristic projection that is part of a decolonial practice of the image. The gold metallic powder drawings superimposed on the archival drawings create a new archive, forcing the archives to reveal their continuities with a globalised contemporary world, but above all to welcome new narratives.
(1): Archive(s), memory, art: interview with Anne Klein, Entre temps magazine, 2020
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Chevalme (sœurs)
Drawers, painters, photographers and co-founders of the Quartier Général collective, the Chevalme sisters (born in 1981) like to question identity, the weight of history and the shift from one culture to another. These two sisters have both an acerbic look at our society and a form of tenderness for the variety of human genres that they like to celebrate in their offbeat stagings. Discovered in 2011 during the Montrouge exhibition, Delphine and Élodie have been building projects mixing drawings, paintings, photographs and installations ever since.
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