This minimalist artwork features the word "DOCENT" in a simple, clean typography against a stark white background. The use of a single, prominent word in a grayscale palette creates a striking visual impact, drawing the viewer's attention to the meaning and significance of the term "docent" - a museum or gallery guide who provides information and interpretations to visitors. The minimalist style and lack of additional visual elements suggest a focus on the conceptual and linguistic aspects of the work, inviting the viewer to contemplate the role of the docent in the context of contemporary art and education. ...
Taking inspiration from both Figurative and Modernist Sculpture, Charlotte Dualé creates beguiling ceramic pieces which are all at once familiar and indistinguishable. Adopting a collage-like approach to sculpture, Dualé brings varying materials such as latex, porcelain and metal together with her ceramic forms, applying glazes and highly pigmented paints to bind these elements. Concerned with the unpredictability of memory and language, recognisable forms are warped and reborn by Dualé, mimicking hazily recollected moments or sentences misshaped by translation. Feminist Art is also a key influence on Dualé's practice, clearly seen in her Impuzzibil (Impossible) series, where the female form is fragmented and scattered throughout the collection. The poetic titles of Dualé’s sculptures are also an integral aspect of her practice. These appellations add further lyrical quality to each series, and when displayed together, these labels draw in the ephemeral threads of spirituality, sensuality and memoir, which orbit Dualé’s practice. ...
Parliament Gallery, founded in 2020, resembles a desire to rethink the function of the art gallery by formulating new proposals of audience interaction with the artwork and visibility to a new generation of french and international artists. Parliament wishes to build through a program that is dedicated to the circulation of ideas and collective reflection. The exhibition program will be interspersed with punctual “Interludes”, archive exhibitions and retrospectives, aiming to put into perspective the transdisciplinary character of creation. ...
