Nathanaël LE BRET
Artist Portfolio
REMAINS
REMAINS is a project that came from the meeting between the two artists N. Le Bret and L. Zabret. REMAINS being both a prolongation of their personnal works and a dialogue between two different approaches to creation and the materialisation of their intersections, interractions and transformations namely through destruction and a constant back and forth between material and virtual worlds : materialisation of the virtual and virtualisation of the material.
"Soon after the creation of the first Neotene sculpture in Slovenia, we started questionning the place of this semi-monumental format and its place in our current economic system and its institutions. It would seem as though "objects of Art" are bound to the realm of the museums, galleries or the rich collector's capital assets. It is indeed very rarely affordable nor practical to purchase "Art" that has received the red seal of appoval of authorative cultural institutions, especially when it comes to sculptural pieces. [...]"
However, humans will always crave for symbols and have those incarnated in matter, investing our personal spaces, from our first dwellings in caves to our undersized appartements wether they are votive or religious icons of the past or the pop culture figurines of the present. Today's icons and artefacts are mass-produced and the rights to their representation and reproduction privately owned by corporate behemouths such as Disney, to name only the most notorious od such cultural empires.
ART REMAINS is a statement. In a world where chaos seems to reign, wherewe are facing existential uncertainties regarding the mere possibility of the future of humanity in our environment, where we are seemingly in perpetual economic ecogological and political crisese, we chose to use this sort of Vanity as the only perceivable point of stability.
Whether in the virtual or the material the process is only ever positive, we do not admit a negative state of things : a sculpture that broke is saying and showing something new ; the virtual world, though it seems immaterial, creates spaces that our senses can still explore and experience though our very material bodies ; contradictions, instead of making either part void, becomes a possibility of showing coexisting threads of reality in a singular time-space.
If we cannot make sense of a chaotic existence or determine the set of rules in which we act, we can choose to be catalysts for it and proudly exhibit the results of it and, toying with the symbolic nature of our understanding of the world, create.
