A French-Colombian artist born in 1987, Carolina Fonseca lives and works in Besançon, where she is a resident of Ateliers Vauban.
She develops her work in drawing and sculpture, the two being intrinsically linked. Among her many sources of inspiration, she borrows from traditional cultures, and some of her works evoke primitive African or pre-Columbian art. She revisits their zoomorphic whistles and anthropomorphic vases and containers. She turns them into clay sculptures, modifying their shape and sometimes their scale, and gives them a utilitarian dimension in ritual-like performances. Carolina Fonseca's bird-beak-shaped ocarina sculptures, for example, are worn like masks and activated by two people to make what sound like alarms, birdsong and animal breaths. Similarly, her head-shaped bowl-sculptures will become the receptacle for food shared with the public in another performance.
She develops her work in drawing and sculpture, the two being intrinsically linked. Among her many sources of inspiration, she borrows from traditional cultures, and some of her works evoke primitive African or pre-Columbian art. She revisits their zoomorphic whistles and anthropomorphic vases and containers. She turns them into clay sculptures, modifying their shape and sometimes their scale, and gives them a utilitarian dimension in ritual-like performances. Carolina Fonseca's bird-beak-shaped ocarina sculptures, for example, are worn like masks and activated by two people to make what sound like alarms, birdsong and animal breaths. Similarly, her head-shaped bowl-sculptures will become the receptacle for food shared with the public in another performance.
Dans cette exposition, les œuvres de Carolina Fonseca évoquent l’anachronisme et l’hybridité ou plus précisément la fusion entre l’humain et les animaux ou végétaux. En ce sens, comme Abdessamad El Montassir dont l’exposition dialogue avec la sienne, elle s’attache à une exploration mémorielle de cultures non occidentales pour souligner l’osmose entre tous les êtres vivants et leur interdépendance originelle, autrement dit le lien fondamental qui unit l’être humain à la nature, à la terre et à toutes les entités animées ou non, et sa permanence dans le temps.
"En imaginant différentes façons d’être en relation j’évoque une nouvelle économie, une autre manière de prendre soin, une façon différente de comprendre le territoire et un respect des multiples temporalités."2
2- Citation de Carolina Fonseca
"En imaginant différentes façons d’être en relation j’évoque une nouvelle économie, une autre manière de prendre soin, une façon différente de comprendre le territoire et un respect des multiples temporalités."2
2- Citation de Carolina Fonseca
