Réunion Sur Cellulose - group show at Galerie Chloe Salgado inb Paris.

RÉUNION SUR CELLULOSE
Artists: Hugo Avigo, Camille Benarab-Lopez, Côme Clérino, Stevie Dix, Amanda Moström, Lulu Nuti
10 September - 16 October 2021
Galerie Chole Salgado, Paris

« Why get attached to paper?
Why get attached to these fragments of life?
We keep them, we treasure them like relics, we store them.
We create boxes, we number them, we date them, we accumulate them without ever opening
them again.
Paper, this medium whose disappearance has been announced so many times. Paper, this
medium that has been criticised and decried for decades, but which finally remains and crosses
the ages.
A loved one who leaves us, a smell that fades, a sound that dims, a face that blurs, a first name
that is forgotten, a landscape that disappears; so we hold on to pieces of paper, ultimate
landmarks, as if to refuse forgetfulness. Physical witnesses for some, reassuring memories for
others, we hold on to these pieces of the past as if to prevent time from slipping away.
Echoes of interiors or exteriors, these fragments of time take us into the comfort of a domestic
scene. Paper is a house that we create for ourselves, that we decorate to surround ourselves;
everyday objects providing familiar and reassuring anchor points. But fragmented, they never
show themselves in their entirety: a memory of a trip, pieces of landscapes, urban or natural,
which allow for escape when it is no longer possible, but which also seem likely to disappear at
any moment.

Cloudy or transparent, these fragments of memory veil and unveil themselves like childhood
memories. And then, these memories, which we thought were intimate and personal, suddenly
appear to be alienated. Reappropriated, they no longer belong to us, like a photo album whose
protagonists' names have been forgotten. Faces, presences, playful appearances, creations of
dreamlike universes sometimes, remain as if to overcome solitude and the passing of time.

GALERIE CHLOE SALGADO has brought together its artists, its family, witnesses of a generation
which, separated for too long, has been longing to meet and reunite again; and invites them to
work on paper, as if to break the digital, too long a vector of all links, and to create tangible
artefacts in order to counteract forgetting.
Like our ties that have been broken and mended, bonded and unbonded, paper tears but glues
itself back together; it embellishes, supports and protects. A product of cellulose and infinitely
reusable, it allows each of us to create a witness of our time. »
Margaux Salgado