In 2024, Florian de la Salle takes over Pile Pont Expo, an art center located in the abutment of the Saint-Gervais bridge. Come and meet the artist at the opening.
Conceived in-situ, the installation Dans le pli du synclinal features immense blotting papers tinted using a technique borrowed from chemistry, chromatography. The artist provokes a sensitive sense of wonder by scientifically experimenting with color and its various reactions in contact with matter, and by playing with the monumental dimension of the site, the work it proposes and the external landscape. Suspended in spirals, these papers create circulation spaces that modify the perception of the site, amplified by the play of light as the day progresses. The title of the exhibition evokes the geological formations that can be observed around Pile Pont. In this way, Florian de la Salle introduces a new stratum of color into the Saint-Gervais landscape, to which chance is no stranger. The visitor, enveloped in color and sound, also discovers objects related to the artist's practice. Playing with this atypical location and the surrounding landscape, Florian invites the viewer to enjoy an immersive experience of color in this concrete setting.
Emma LEGRAND, exhibition curator
In Rhone-Alpes region
Saint-Gervais