Winner of the Prix Rubis Mécénat in partnership with the church of Saint-Eustache and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, 5th year student Charlotte Simonnet has designed an original installation paying tribute to the notion of community.
Curated by Stéphanie Pécourt.
With her installation Glimpse, Charlotte Simonnet pays tribute to the notion of community that permeates the church of Saint-Eustache. Using the form of a rope, the artist evokes the bond forged between the church and its inhabitants, and focuses on the use of materials and their relationship with the church's architecture. This rhizomic installation will occupy the space between two columns in the aisle and five chapels, following a principle of dissemination that is very present in the artist's work.
The main installation, composed of ropes made of stained glass and rebar, will bind together the columns of the church, while struck copper plates will be scattered around the installation and in the chapels. Evoking the practice of ex-votos, these hammered copper plates will be the fruit of a collection of objects made by the artist from parishioners and occasional visitors to the site, and will reveal the counter-form of the donated objects, which will then be scattered around the church like epiphytic plants (organisms that grow using other plants as support). They will then be returned to the donors once the exhibition is over, linking the artist and the parishioners, with Saint-Eustache as the meeting point.
