from 18 May to 6 July 2024
Sarah Battaglia – FORCES NÉES
A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Annecy, this French artist works in drawing, sculpture and printmaking. She questions our connection to the world of nature and the living, which is often neglected in our society.
To create her works, Sarah Battaglia patiently collects, draws, moulds and models organic and plant debris such as feathers and hairs, in search of traces of other lives.
The artist tries to re-enchant the wild, to draw our attention to what is natural, to show its strength, beauty and fragility. These sculptures are reminiscent of the cabinets of curiosities, with objects that are preserved and repaired despite the mystery they evoke.
At VOG, she presents her exhibition under the title FORCES NÉES, which refers to the ambivalent forces of the living, those that animate, make and unmake with gentleness and sometimes brutality. The exhibition brings together a group of recent works, a personal narrative that attempts to understand our cohabitation with a wild part of the world that is dwindling. Each sculpture, each form embodies a dialogue, or perhaps a simple warning of all that can be lost.