Rosaire

"Rosaire" is a total proposal by self-taught artist Clément Bataille for the gallery's "Le Salon" project room. It's an opportunity for the artist to present a selection of new works, but also to transform the gallery's intimate space. the gallery's intimate space: to accommodate his works, the salon becomes a chapel of a different kind. The vaults become soft, enveloping those who enter, drawing them into a profusion of images of struggling bodies and displaced objects. Clément Bataille appropriates the language of iconography in resolutely offbeat interpretations of radically discolored saints who, among his subjects, invent another religion. This monstration, punctuated by scrutinizing eyes, in pain yet focused, is the collection of a mythology distorted by the artist, very much his own, and which offers itself to our gaze. Here, his works become an overflow of bodies, incompletely represented, revealing in what they lack all the poetry of this vehicle of the soul, in confrontation with himself or others. Religious in form, secular in subject, her paintings and ceramics allow her to domesticate personal ex-votos, humorously subverting the gestures traditionally represented.