After showing us around The new exhibition at BAL in Paris dedicated to Japanese photographer Yasuhiro IshimotoMarie Sorbier closes this season of the Grand Tour in the capital by taking us discover the exhibition “Tromper l’oeil” by Eva Jospin at the Galleria Continua. The visual artist is also honored in other places since it is possible to admire his work Silk room at the Orangery of the Palace of Versailles (Yvelines), but also his work installed on the facade of the new Hôpital Bicêtre metro station in Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne) as well as an exhibition dedicated to him at the Fortuny Museum in Venice, Italy.
“Tromper l’oeil” does not refer to a painted work that seeks to play with perspectives and mimic reality; for Eva Jospin, it is a question of being in a act of active deception, of bringing a game between the spectator and the work, an interaction, in particular by playing on scales and proportions. The different works, all unpublished, respond to each other, imitate each other, and seem to be in dialogue with each other. In this exhibition, Eva Jospin is not limited to cardboard, her favorite material. She also plays with materials by creating with bronze, textile, paper, brass, shells, pieces of wood… So many materials which sometimes look alike or merge together and which deceive, which rightly question our gaze .
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The other aspect that emerges from this new exhibition and which is a continuity in the work of Eva Jospin is the dialogue between a figurative work contrasted by a void as to the history behind the work. The shapes of his works often resemble constructions, buildings, but also natural settings, caves, and therefore evoke numerous images in the viewer. But we are never told precisely what happens in the works, what they are: “It’s true that there is something very narrative in the way the works are presented here, but the story is still missing because I want the people who come to discover the exhibition to recreate their own story a little bit.” explains the artist to Marie Sorbier. Something poetic and melancholic emerges from this stroll in the face of all these stories that everyone tells themselves, but which will never really exist.
