Elisaberth Ballet "Lazy Days" Solo Exhibition

Questioning the charter of object-sculpture, "Flicker," 2008. Elisaberth Ballet's solo exhibition "Lazy Days": on display at Serge le Borgne Gallery from April 3 to May 31. Born in 1956, Elisaberth Ballet is one of France's most representative contemporary sculptors. In today's postmodern context, she continues to question the possibilities and criteria for completing works within the realm of object-sculpture, often operating at the limits and edges of this medium to develop sculptural installation processes. Since her 2004 work "Beautiful Outside," she has developed the concept of ring-shaped sculpture, evolving it to address issues of spatial fluidity and transformation. She emphasizes the interplay between interior and exterior, scale, and the integration of abstract and realistic themes within spiritual and material processes, rejecting purely abstract forms of sculpture. This guides the audience into a contemplative embodiment and imaginative world.

The exhibition venue serves as inspiration for Elisaberth Ballet's creations, establishing space as the core of the work. By combining environmental spaces through intellectual, industrial, and craft-based installations, she challenges perceptions. The work "Eyeliner" features a long roll of black rubber folded and displayed on the floor, with three vertical white geometric lines alluding to real roads. Here, viewers are prompted to question what constitutes sculpture amidst the most mundane objects and images. On the wall, the word "Concept" is written in neon lights, reflecting the act of artistic creation and the process of participation. Concept is the core of creation, pushing this idea into the abyss.

In the environmental installation "Lazy Days," the theme is written on white walls, with a wooden ladder placed in the center. It resembles a scenario where the artist climbed the wall to write but forgot to remove the ladder, forming an accidental natural form. What are the limitations of reality? The artist states, "Starting from within, what is the external participation I see, and where does it lead? I can depict what I see, but this does not constitute the concept of sculpture, because the environment also participates in what the sculpture reflects."

"Road Movie" presents a distinctive painted vortex-style facade painting-sculpture, composed of colorful (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, black) lines winding along the facade and a central vortex shape (supported below by a series of white columns). The constantly moving shapes provide an extraordinary sense of fluid speed, igniting intentional space within visual imagination. "Flicker" is a transparent maze that displays extraordinary space within pure visual interiors and exteriors, and open and closed structural forms, questioning the charter of object-sculpture through special materials.