Julie Calbert
Lives and works in belgium
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Ekhô
What reproduces or reminds something, a trace, a mark.
Ekhô is a series of prints, installations and objects related to landscape. The dimensions go from the horizon scale to the microscopic so as the observation scales. The space staging gives a rhythm to our gaze, from the remote to the closest to the substance. Julie Calbert pursues a gesture that belongs to her work: the photographic cultivation. The hues, whether they are chosen or accidental, refer to the periodic table of the elements with its golds, silvers, methylene blue, oxidized greens or charcoal blacks. She picks up in the scientific iconography the classification in ranges, cover slips and snaps and then articulates these images in series to highlight both their frequency and their chemical attributes. In ancient Greek, êkhéô (“where the echo comes from”) means just as to make noise as to resonate, it literally means “to make a sound”. Here, Julie Calbert goes through the surface to reveal a dislocated landscape that spouts, oscillates and thrums in silence, just like the feminine figures that punctuate her series.
Myriam Pruvot
