Arpaïs Du Bois Feue la Joyeuseté

The Van Hoe Collection Grammar of Textiles

The art of Arpaïs Du Bois always presents itself as an intimate experience, even a ripping apart of the self that is played out in the battle between language and painting.

In a low voice, almost a whisper in the rustling of the world. A low voice reciting time suspended, the wanderings of the soul, stretches of the heart, evoking the risk of thunder or the delicacy of a breath billowing the canopy. A low voice in which the suspicion of death roars as much as the spirited hope of everyday moments. For those who are able to hear them, it is all there, in the sentences of Arpaïs Du Bois. For this secret artist inscribes words, fragments of thoughts, the beginnings of texts on leaves still trembling with the colours that branded them. You will find no beautiful poems or any heroic declamations here. The power of these words lies elsewhere.

– Damien Sausset

For to be contemporary means this: for one to be the oeuvre of a time without any past or future, to be so vis-à-vis with oneself, assigned forcibly or through resignation with regard to this oeuvre, and to be simultaneously the author, the recipient, the product and the guardian; captured wholly in one’s mirror.

– Jean-Paul Curnier

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Binding Hardcover