/ The Young
European Artists Network
European Artists Network
Jeune Création Européenne / Youth European Creation
The Prize is awarded for each edition of JCE to the best work of the ensemble of selections presented. The winner is allowed to present a personal exhibition of five of his works at the next Biennial and, during the JCE, he/she is a guest of the Residency program.
Marie-Odile HUBERT travels by night, by car, in the rain looking at the pictures she took through her windshield, she makes us hear the sound of her wipers. Of this sad and monochromatic universe, that could cause anguish, she brings out the colours. Gleams of revised headlights that can reassure or become the worrying approach of extraterrestrial objects. In any case she honours the strength of colour.
“I’m not a killer” by Marie-Odile HUBERT:
I was contacted by a gallery, set up exhibitions, and met potential buyers. But above all, I buried myself in work, devoting as much time to it as possible, finally feeling as though I were living for the creative process, if not of it.
The biennial has been a stepping-stone for me, and all the more so since it allowed me to gain visibility while giving me time to develop my work.
I envision this encounter and future ones as happy attempts to lighten the way into an internal world racked by doubts that are often motivating, but sometimes inhibiting.
This experience also helped me meet artists – photographers or others – with similar sensibilities, and it created fruitful connections.
On my work
Defect in convergence
A tension between seeing and preventing oneself from seeing
I seek to experience sensations by way of optical distortions associated with photographical focalization, trails of movements, but also by focusing on materials and on the tactile, as well as by the transcription of the buried memory of lights.
I have developed a kind of formal trial and error in photography: the grain, the digital noise, make the final « touch » of the image. The image is created through a tension between seeing and preventing oneself from seeing, from which develops a phantasmagoria.
To avoid the boredom of a story to tell
I have decided to work by accumulation, variations, filtration, coagulation, projection. This is a way of doing things discreetly, to avoid being obvious, to maintain an ambivalence, a sense of the undefined, while taking the vision to a sort of
« spider web ». In my multiple series of images, I search for the impact of each one, capturing them in a perceptual “trap.” The aim is to reconstruct an emotion, an uneasiness.
The missing element
I also juxtapose or superpose self-portraits and landscapes that bring together shot and reverse shot. Like my window pictures, these images coagulate selfawareness and world experience. These series are often built around an absence, a missing element of sense or understanding, sometimes like a rebus. But there remains the possibility of considering only the esthetics of the images as such, to trap the gaze and make it linger.
