Lea Porre

Emerging from the abyss, the works of the artists brought together by Emmanuelle Luciani are embodied as rereadings of forms from end-of-cycle periods, such as mannerism, baroque or rocaille. In the twilight of an age, the forms become unbound, serpentine and fluid, illustrating the changes and metamorphoses underway and to come. The idea of the bizarre, of "uncanny" oozes from all the works. The ambiguity of the forms, neither totally mineral nor totally organic or vegetal, is combined with a troubled timelessness, stretching between a past outside the memory of the modern world and an impalpable future, where gothic vertigo and rococo curves are reborn in objects, materials and shades that have not yet been invented. In this sunken temple, a different relationship to time and history emerges, with a broken linearity.