Winner of the 2025 Rubis Mécénat Prize in partnership with the Church of Saint-Eustache and Beaux-Arts de Paris, Liselor Perez, a fifth-year student, presents a unique installation of a set of puppets scattered throughout the main nave and side chapels. Curated by Julia Marchand.
“My installation is a poetic exploration of existential tensions: the fragile body, seeking elevation, confronted with timeless, immutable architecture.” Liselor Perez
Drawing on the inner silence and materiality of the place, which the artist frequented at length during her research phase, Liselor Perez has sketched these mysterious silhouettes, which seem to emerge from the building. By imagining a “church guardian” with a body covered in Jesmonite reminiscent of the pillar against which he leans, or a puppet-like being balancing in one of the chapels, becoming the receptacle for a stained-glass face, the artist sculpts a point of connection between the work and its environment, absorbing the motifs that surround it to cover it with adornment.
Between poetry and science fiction, the works offer a sensory experience, an invitation to daydream where the puppet is no longer a simple toy, but the medium for an embodied questioning of the meaning of being and the other.
Since 2021, the Rubis Mécénat Prize, in partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris, has enabled a student from the school to receive production assistance and critical support for the creation of a new work at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris.
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Photo crédit : © Clara Duflot
