Valentine Guardient on her planet pranks – Liberation
Populated by giants with padded bodies of straw and dressed in old frusque, overturned heads (they are made of strips soaked in plaster before being affixed to hen wiring), the exhibition of the young Valentine Guardiennet is not afraid of anything. Especially not ridicule as these stamped figures, guys and good women of papier mache, German cousins of the big carnival heads, all amazed with their animated eyes of jerky movements, seem too childish to deserve the demanding status of sculptures. Their crumpled carcass, their port without any support, their features painted with a brush too loaded with rose (on the cheeks), red (on the lips) or yellow (everywhere) lend them the profile of the village of the village rather.
It is a village precisely, with its cantors and high places, but also the festive imagination, sharing of popular good humor and strong with a thousand stories of grandmother, which the artist thus implants the general stores of Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), with the energy of his 28 years and a robotive decomplex. In the center of the village, she deployed a bed, of the same size as her dolls. We are at least at least 30 and the music broadcast would almost make you forget what remains to be seen around, the rest of the village and its other inhabitants. Around the mill stand, in an onion row, wise as images but not naive for a penny, « The good pear » And « The donkey », scapegoats found everything found in
