vrai ou FAUVE ? This title in the form of a linguistic pirouette sets the tone for an exhibition full of twists and turns where painting occupies as big a place as design. The colours are powerful while the strange shapes born of these digital manipulations have freed themselves from the ties of industrial standardisation. But just what is Laureline Galliot looking to do? Like the Fauve or Vienna Secession painters that she admires, this artist- designer uses colours to single out each of her gestures, sculpting the luminous material on the screen. Clearly, her mastery of digital tools, which she sometimes uses in ways they were not intended for, has spurred a deep desire in her to liberate conventional formal and ornamental vocabularies.
Here, we are given a chance to try and decipher the way she works. This monographic exhibition reveals her creative process. She opens the door to her research lab, shows us the sources she works from and the collected references that sustain her practice. This Prévert-style sampling helps us to understand her unconventional, but exhilarating design work. Curiosity is what drives new encounters for Laureline Galliot, and at the invitation of the Cité du design, she has embarked on an original experimentation with moiré techniques with Lyon-based textile firm Maison Benaud. A pas de deux full of promise. Like the artists who have inspired her, Laureline Galliot defies categorisation, charting a singular course that also serves to confirm the profusion of creativity embodied in contemporary design.
Laurence Salmon,
Director of Artistic and Cultural Development at the Cité du design
