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The artist Aude Hérail Jäger, born in Narbonne, lived in London for several decades where she studied Fine Arts, returned temporarily to Aude, as curator and artist of a two-headed exhibition with Tisna Westerhof .
“It was during the pandemic that I realized how much Aude was still “at home”. As soon as we could travel again, I came. And like every time, I went to Sigean to visit Layla Moget, at LAC. That’s where I proposed this idea of an exhibition with Tisna, also met during or thanks to confinement “, explains the visual artist. By drawing from the languages of Molière and Shakespeare the most precise word, Aude Hérail Jäger, expresses that for both artists, the notion of “home” is important. One works with immediacy , socially engaged, on the themes of racism, injustice, migration and misogyny. The other, more contemplative, works on “.memory, childhood and human themes generic to all: death, mourning and these personal stories which mark forever. “
“I also read “The Perfume of Flowers at Night”, by Leïla Slimani, which really touched me, with among other things the theme of “displacement”: this fact of being at the same time from where we live while staying where we came from. I’ve been a Narbo-Londonian for too long not to be from there, but I’m still from here; being at home nowhere and at home everywhere at the same time. This double identity also gives a lot of freedom.” It is this notion which brought down the subtitle of the exhibition. Conceived, not as a space where the works rub shoulders, the hanging was in itself an artistic installation which allowed the spectator to enter into the lines of interaction of works with each other.
“The Open Door” by Aude Hérail Jäger and Tisna Westerhof was visible until recently. Among the works presented, we could also admire the work of workshops with around sixty people, led remotely by the artist, and which, in the form of a patchwork, were integrated into the monumental installation that was this exposure.
