Violaine Laveaux
Born in 1957, lives and works in Carcassonne, France
Violaine Laveaux pursues her installation work with natural elements (branches, pigments, ink, wax, raw earth, talc, coal, paraffin) which give her the freedom to write where drawing and signs become one. She unrolls Ariadne's thread of a small cosmogony, childhood memories between mythology and tales; a small glossary of a personal grammar where animal figures, figures of the sky and vegetable matter are mixed.
Part of his installation work draws on the register of mythological forms and stories offered by the figures of the constellations and more particularly the ambivalent animal figures such as the wolf, the bear and the raven, deified or demonised according to the culture, and whose face to face confronts us with our dreams, our aspirations and our contradictions... When the humanity of animals makes us think about the animality of men... She has made the sky a fertile crucible, a source and a pretext at the same time, to develop a work of drawing, volume, in space, on the wall, on the ground, in connection with the architectural and sometimes historical configuration of the place. Each installation is built for the place itself.
"Violaine Laveaux's installations have the taste of childhood and the breadth of the vessels of the great discoverers of botanical poetry. They invite us to explore a time and space where earth, air and water no longer have the borders we know, as soon as we reach the shores of adulthood. There, the earth is still liquid, water can be air and air, who knows... Violaine's words and signs are like compasses. They take on the looks, colours and tastes of nature to guide the attentive walker. In order to rediscover the flavour of nature, we must put on our boots, sharpen our eyes, follow in the artist's footsteps and let her wind the clock. Thus the countdown can begin...