With artist\u00a0Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer<\/b>, author\u00a0Tiphaine Samoyault <\/b>and\u00a0Nathalie Guiot<\/b>, President of fondation Thalie and Fondation Thalie in Bruxelles.<\/p>\n
The Thalie Foundation initiated the publication of A comme Boa<\/i><\/strong>, a collection of visual and textual poems by Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer and Tiphaine Samoyault around Matrice<\/i>, a sculptural project by Thurnauer.<\/p>\n Tiphaine Samoyault<\/b> is a writer, critic and professor of French and comparative literature at the Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She recently published a critically acclaimed biography of Roland Barthes at the \u00c9ditions du Seuil in their \u201cFiction et Cie\u201d collection.<\/p>\n Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer<\/b> is an artist whose paintings and sculptures explore the question of language. She has exhibited in many art centres and museums, in France and abroad. Some of her writing has been published, notably in the \u201cEcrits d\u2019artistes\u201d at the Beaux-arts de Paris, and she regularly collaborates with writers, philosophers and poets.<\/p>\n “The Matrice project makes use of language as space and as potentiality. The letter exists by the hollows formed inside the pieces of the cast. As these pieces are more or less disjointed \u2013 depending on how the sculpture is laid out or compressed \u2013 the space of language is opened up and can be put into practice according to how one moves about in the space. The hollowed-out letter is open to all possible combinations. Matrice\/ground: level with the gaze, Matrice\/sitting: level with the body. Unlike a definition that encloses and isolates, Matrice proposes language as an investigation, polyphony, corporeality, place of encounters. Like Greek forums, Matrice advocates the place of language in society \u2013 a place open to all languages.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I was familiar with and admired Tiphanie Samoyault\u2019s work, having read, several years ago, La Main n\u00e9gative, whose focus on the making of things and knowledge had made a strong impression on me. Then I read B\u00eate de cirque, and the Roland Barthes biography, which is a great exploration of language. Barthes who said: \u201cLanguage is a skin: I rub my language against the other.\u201d In Matrice there is of course this relationship with the other. Barthes also spoke about language which deterriorialises by terriorialising. Matrice lays down language like a pedestal and a floor. For me, A comme Boa, the text that Tiphanie wrote for our book, seemed like the solarisation of images. There is no reciprocal illustration, there is the imprint of the same thing, of which half is expressed in words, the other half in photos. I have the impression that A comme Boa is not something that Tiphanie and I have created alone, but, as the poet Wordsworth said, \u201cThe Child is father of the Man.\u201d This book is our Maternit\u00e9 cosmique. Each person will feel like a child, \u201csitting among the beasts and speaking all the languages.”<\/em><\/p>\n Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With artist\u00a0Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer, author\u00a0Tiphaine Samoyault and\u00a0Nathalie Guiot, President of fondation Thalie and Fondation Thalie in Bruxelles. The Thalie Foundation initiated the publication of A comme Boa, a collection of visual and textual poems by Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer and Tiphaine Samoyault around Matrice, a sculptural project by Thurnauer. Tiphaine Samoyault is a writer, critic and professor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[202,139],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14214,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/14214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}