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Alain Marciano, 10 juillet 2011

Anne Jallais’ new series of paintings confirms the permanence of her pictorial language, and shows an evolution in its appearance.
Determined, decisive, incisive, the gesture expresses the jolts of the World and open up to spaces of deep aspiration. From more or less natural disasters to uprisings and chained repressions… conscience’s work carries on.
The freedom of winding gestures is countered by the authority of hiding paint-rolled traces, the colour which worms and weaves its way…
Between the circumvolutions' flow and the walls which mechanically block the space-time continuum (metal? concrete?), it’s a matter of struggle and confrontation.
For in these « Grisailles et débordements » (Greyness and overflows), the point is truly the social clash. Some pictures are an answer to the unrest, to the chaotic overflow; others anticipate, and universal holes emerge from confusion: after the struggle, the escape ?
The series untitled « Roaratorio » recalls the visual and acoustic poem choreographed by Merce Cunningham, initially sound-writen by John Cage, a show in which euphoria and cacophony, construction and disorder occur. « This work suggests an invitation to awakening, a call for consciousness, the exact opposite of an inattentive world ».
A call.

Alain Marciano, artist and lecturer at Montpellier 1 University.

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