Jeanne Vicerial
Avant de voir le jour
On the occasion of the first edition of Contemporaine de Nîmes, Jeanne Vicerial is exhibiting her works alongside those of Pierre Soulages at the Musée du Vieux Nîmes from April 5, 2024.
The Museum of Old Nîmes is the setting for a posthumous pairing between emerging textile artist Jeanne Vicerial and the celebrated painter who recently passed away: Pierre Soulages. The painter’s research was particularly important to Jeanne Vicerial. Upon discovering his work, she realized that black, when combined with repetitive gestures, opens infinite possibilities. For it is not about black in the end, but about light and doors to other worlds. In this unprecedented face-to-face encounter, Jeanne Vicerial pays tribute to the master in the city where he passed away. Several of their works engage in dialogue within a multisensory installation she created entirely on site, and which required her to live in the museum for a month with her team and fashion students from High school Ernest Hemingway in Nîmes. The experience is as much about rebirth and metamorphosis as it is about the state of anteriority that precedes birth, the last memory before life begins. Feminine presences and Outrenoirs punctuate this journey from white to black and back again, highlighting the many parallels between the two artists’ practices. The threads and furrows created by the brush sometimes appear to interchange. Here, they embody both the passage of time and the fragility of destinies.
Présence
Catula, Présence
Étude anatomique : fibre musculaire d’une Présence
The artist
Born in 1991, Jeanne Vicerial lives and works in Jura, France. After studying costume design and completing a Master's degree in Fashion Design at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2015, she became the first person in France to obtain a SACRe (Sciences, Arts, Création, Recherche), doctorate in 2019. She furthered her research by questioning the dichotomy between ready-to-wear and bespoke clothing, while also embarking on an artistic journey that led her to create the Clinique vestimentaire research and design studio. In addition to her personal creations, she has initiated numerous collaborations with artists from a variety of backgrounds. Her works were notably exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2018), in Rome (Villa Medici and Palazzo Farnese, 2020), at the Collection Lambert in Avignon (2021), at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin (2021), at the Basilique Saint-Denis (2022) and have recently been added to the collections of the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques) and the FRAC Auvergne. In 2024, she was invited to exhibit in dialogue with the paintings of Pierre Soulages at the Musée Soulages in Rodez. Jeanne Vicerial has participated in several group exhibitions, at the Maximiliansforum, Munich (2022), the Fondation Martell, Cognac (2022), the Ballroom Project, Antwerp (2022), the Maison Guerlain, Paris (2022), the Musée International des Arts Modestes in Sète (2023), the fondation Lafayette Anticipations (2023), the FRAC Auvergne (2023), the Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand (2023) and the Triennale de Nîmes (2024).
