FINE ARTS

Lucas Aulagnier – Creer Algo

by Lucas Aulagnier

In the Mediterranean regions of europe, niches in building facades contain votive statuettes, testimony to a religious past in the public space. They are closed by glass panes of the same format, delimiting the sacred space of the niche and the secular space of the street. I'm fascinated by the idea that something of the statuettes on one side and the passers-by on the other has been fixed by the glass, in a quasi-photographic way. It's the sum total of the exchanged glances that has been captured: the gaze of those who looked up at the saint in the hope that he or she would return their gaze. The extracted glass panes, marked by minute traces of paint and time, are non-signifying images, silent and bearing uncertainty.