Vernissages collectives PCC: Saturday, September 14, 11.30-5.00, with the artists.
Le Salon Vert is delighted to be presenting Line Dutoit Choffet as part of the 2024 Parcours Céramique Carougeois (International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics). In 2024, the PCC celebrates its 35th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Emilie Fargues, head of the Bruckner Foundation, and Frédéric Bodet, associate curator, have devised a programme on the theme of Writing, Images, Messages. Whether or not ceramics is a vehicle for messages or the message itself, it has become an essential medium of artistic expression over the last decade.
Based in Châtel-sur-Montsalvens (Gruyère), Line Dutoit Choffet has – for almost twenty years now – quietly been creating pieces that highlight the translucence of porcelain. She combines this exploration of the materiality of images with her desire to bear witness to the biodiversity crisis. Indeed, this is what led her launching a collaboration with biologists and photographers who have shared with her their collection of plants and animals that are now extinct, or on the verge of extinction.
Under the title Fragiles lueurs (Fragile Glimmers), the artist has created bas-reliefs, presented in the form of framed, backlit paintings, whose subjects – sometimes transparent and almost animated, other times as if fossilised in the porcelain when the lighting fades – express the fragility of life as it disappears.
In Ce qui circule dans mes veines (What Runs in My Veins), the artist expresses her environmental concerns through elements such as plants with their fine veins, membranes, and skin – sensitive sheaths irrigated by the network of veins. These pieces are veritable sculptures of the utmost delicacy, their refined craftsmanship and placement techniques are reminiscent of the art of draping. Hung from branches like fabrics, they are as much a shroud as they are the remains of an insect’s cocoon.
Alongside these larger pieces, Line Dutoit Choffet shows small round boxes – again in porcelain – each holding a candle and featuring a lid decorated with foliage in relief. Le Salon Vert and Line Dutoit Choffet make a donation of 2.50 CHF for each candle sold to the Geneva based association "La Libellule".
As a whole, her work magnifies nature with impressive virtuosity, serving as an urgent reminder of the need to preserve biodiversity. "Let us not allow these species to disappear so that all we know about them are their fossils", she says.
Line Dutoit Choffet
Fragiles Lueurs
14 September 2024 - 22 September 2024
