TEMPLUM

(2023)

exhibition with Marie Sirgue and Dominique Thébault,
from March 24 to May 6, 2023
at Lavitrine in Limoges

"The templum (sector) is traced in the sky by the augur holding the lituus (staff), and the flight of birds guides him to interpret the manifestation, aided by the natural phenomena which guide decision-making. »*
It is from a Roman custom borrowed from the Etruscans – to observe the trajectories of the flight of birds in a portion of the sky previously delimited and called templum that the verb to contemplate derives and beyond our notion of contemplation.
Like the "templum", the gallery space presents a set of artistic proposals evoking links, relationships, animal testimonies as so many proposals for an idea of nature in the making... This animal world, these trajectories of the living evoked, would be in this exhibition the common denominator of our “animal side”. "A kind of water table of the sensitive, a kind of distant and undivided, uncertain reserve"* where everyone could draw near-distant.

D.T. 2023