Group exhibition
Je est un autre
From 2nd April 2023

Exhibition in the Bastide Gallery

Château La Coste is pleased to present "Je est un autre" at La Galerie Bastide. This group exhibition brings together four international artists: Marcella Barceló, Cécilia Granara, Pauline Guerrier and Inès Longevial, who explore, through the figure and colour, the infinite continent of the vagaries of identity and its unlimited variables.
The title, in homage to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, evokes the complex nature of the self, what we perceive of it and the countless ways in which we represent it. The figuration of the self will never be truly achieved or possible, for there is always a gap between the idea of the self and what appears on the canvas. This strangeness of the figure over the intention testifies that I is another.

Ines Longevial's sensual paintings most of the time take the form of self-portraiture. The quiet, reflective poses of her subjects are accentuated by a particular approach to light, and a vivid palet of colours that echo a direct link to primal emotions. As seen elsewhere in this exhibition, the free use of colour conveys emotion that takes the spectator to its very core.

Marcella Barcelò's work also often includes self-portrait elements such as autobiographical references to her youth. These floating, dreamlike compositions recall a rich variety of art historical echoes. A disturbing metaphorical strangeness emerges from Marcella Barceló’s canvases, which stems from an aesthetic of elusive nature of the sensible world that she got from her multiple trips to Japan.

Cecilia Granara’s colorful and immersive work question the body as being the seat of emotions. Therefore sadness, desire, love, lack are often represented in the artist’s paintings. Colors are of the utmost importance in Cecilia’s paintings as they wake up the body to make it enter new spheres of the imagination, often depicted through religious and cultural iconography. If colors mostly represent joy, warmth, hope, for Cecilia they also are a collective shelter for violence.

Pauline Guerrier’s continuous desire to discover foreign artisanal ways of producing have led her to integrate a real historical dimension into her multi-disciplinary work, nourished by different cultures and identities. Colors and materials, such as the “marqueterie de paille” or her sculptures have been inspired by her multiple journeys around the world and are real vectors of ideas, always linked to ecology, science, faith, superstition or the human body.