Zig-Zag
Manoir de Martigy.
20.02.2015 - 24.05.2015
By Zig-Zag we travel. In 2015, I was invited by curator Anne Jean-Richard Largey to occupy the top floor of the Manoir de Martigny. On the floor of the Manor, I presented a series of pieces made from castings of men's legs. Altars that mix pop culture and ancestral rites. These pieces reflect my interest in representations of the human figure, especially isolated and decontextualized parts of the human body. In a kind of symbolic gesture, I have often replaced one kind of body for another or at least part of another (a palm for a man, a foot for a whole, a single breast for a woman) but always took the care to create the link that could secure those bodies. That link was often a fabric, a belt,a dyed canvas. In my practice textile has often been the fertile terrain on which unlikely encounters rested or were granted a certain posterity.
Jesus Bananas Hotel, 2015. Plaster cast, painted sheet, plastic bananas. 70x40 cm.
© Nicolas Lieber
Théophile, 2015. Palm tree trunk, blankets, belt. 160x40 cm.
© Nicolas Lieber.
Sans Titre (Hadrien), 2015. Leg in plaster, piece of marble, chain.
© Nicolas Lieber.
Narcisse, 2015. Mirror podium, ceramic head, cactus. 30x15 cm.
© Nicolas Lieber.
Cowboy Altar, 2015. Marble slabs, painted fabric, leg cast, cowboy boot, fox fur. Approx. 200 x 100 cm.
© Nicolas Lieber
Sans Titre (Brian) 2015. Molasses head, scotch tape, pedestal, carpet.
© Nicolas Lieber
Sans Titre, 2015. Poster, magazine page, marble.
© Nicolas Lieber
Sans Titre, 2015. Hand casting, copper circle
© Nicolas Lieber