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"Les petits colibris" by Timothée Calame features a striking contrast of black and white, with fragmented illustrations and text interspersed throughout. The artwork juxtaposes abstract shapes with detailed, comic-style imagery, including figures and patterns. Calame’s style is eclectic, merging graphic design with narrative elements, creating a collage effect that blurs the line between object and story. The piece integrates prosaic and poetic elements, echoing the artist’s exploration of reality through fictionalization. Calame aims to challenge perceptions and provoke thought about the familiar and the foreign. ...
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Timothée Calame’s work takes many forms, often starting with drawings and writings that give rise to assembled objects, images and even short films. These are usually presented as part of an ensemble, with each project conceived as an installation and a means of taking over the space to narrate experiences and information stored in bits and pieces. Halfway between everyday objects and sculptures, Calame's work is a collection of sculptures in which the prosaic, the political and the poetic are the ingredients of a fictionalisation of reality. As the artist says himself: “I am looking for definitions, while avoiding the definitive. I am looking for ways to experience with interest what is foreign to me.” ...