The Maison des Arts in Cajarc presents the works of two young contemporary artists, Julia Gault and Thomas Teurlai.
The Maison des Arts in Cajarc opens its cultural season with the works of two young artists who question today’s world through their creations. Julia Gault and Thomas Teurlai invent forms and systems to tell our world, a world out of breath, populated by forms that we invent, produce, and relegate at an accelerated pace. However, the two artists also marvel at the infinite possibilities of metamorphosis of matter at the same time, through natural or technological processes.
Julia Gault, Sculptress
As a sculptress, Julia Gault creates allegorical works that evoke the figure of the colossus with feet of clay. Playing with materials not inclined to stability, such as raw earth, sand, or water, she either forces them or encourages them in their unstable nature to create rigid structures in precarious balance, on the verge of collapse or dispersion. Here, it is the material itself and not the one who shapes it that dictates the future of the form, never fixed, always moving, a possible allusion to the natural forces that are always capable of sweeping away any human ambition.
Thomas Teurlai, Sculptor
Thomas Teurlai is also a sculptor, but his attraction to the disparate assemblages of elements from recent or evolved technologies would rather resemble that of an alchemist. His installations, metaphors of a galloping and suffocating production system, also reveal the artist’s taste for the magical potential of technical devices. The copper plating laboratory by electrolysis that he presents for the exhibition does not deviate from the rule, both a chain of laborious production subject to the laws of the international market, and a fascinating staging of the magical transformation of matter.
At the end of the world, Maison des Arts de Cajarc is open from Wednesday to Sunday, from 2 pm to 6 pm, until May 31st. Guided tours are available every Saturday at 4 pm. Admission is free.
