Birds
2012 – Installation at the Saint John Perse foundation,
Aix en Provence
Straw, staples, mechanism, video
“Julie Bessart’s installations seem to slow down time, to hold space back. They send us back to primordial times when the fusion with the world around, the fascination for what was vegetal, mineral or animal and for all the natural shapes whose unarticulated beauty forced Homo sapiens to imagine they were concealing forces and spirits and, even before they were conceived as Art itself, opened to secret conceptions of beauty…”
