until Friday July 17 2015

Galerie Claudine Papillon
T : +33 (0)1 40 29 07 20
13, rue Chapon
75003 Paris
France

Pole dance

For her fifth solo show at the Claudine Papillon gallery, Elsa Sahal keeps pushing back the boundaries of ceramics.

In “Pole Dance”, her sculptures of broken up, dancing bodies break free from the laws of gravity, both literally and figuratively. The artist prefers to work with metonymies of the body: instead of sculpting a whole woman, she evokes her by selecting, displacing and reassembling body parts -- a thigh, a breast, a foot – as she did in the “Nus couchés” (“Recumbent Nudes”) series she presented last spring at the Hôtel Dieu for the International Art Festival of Toulouse. In this new series too, their burlesque spirit sidesteps the codes of gender.