Norville Guirouard-Aizée
1961 (Martinique)
Living in : Fort-de-France
Working in : Fort-de-France
About his work "Untitled" of 2008 made of wood, nails and a pair of baby shoes he says: "It is a piece placed on the ground. The nails, arranged in a circle, are a symbolic representation of the planet. This forest of nails refers to a certain aggressiveness since, located on the path of the spectators, the latter will have to take care not to step on it. In the center there are white slippers of little girls - symbol of femininity - in order to counterbalance the verticality erected towards the sky - the nails - which refer to masculinity. The central place of the shoes is not without evoking the place of target of an aggression, of a violence, of a movement of which one is not the initiator. The pair of shoes gives us to seize the metaphor of the violence made to a very small child -innocent and disarmed. These nails act in a double complexity: they separate us from the child by threatening us, and they isolate this child from any possible help."
Art absolutely #25, June 2008.
Living in : Fort-de-France
Working in : Fort-de-France
About his work "Untitled" of 2008 made of wood, nails and a pair of baby shoes he says: "It is a piece placed on the ground. The nails, arranged in a circle, are a symbolic representation of the planet. This forest of nails refers to a certain aggressiveness since, located on the path of the spectators, the latter will have to take care not to step on it. In the center there are white slippers of little girls - symbol of femininity - in order to counterbalance the verticality erected towards the sky - the nails - which refer to masculinity. The central place of the shoes is not without evoking the place of target of an aggression, of a violence, of a movement of which one is not the initiator. The pair of shoes gives us to seize the metaphor of the violence made to a very small child -innocent and disarmed. These nails act in a double complexity: they separate us from the child by threatening us, and they isolate this child from any possible help."
Art absolutely #25, June 2008.