delpire & co is delighted to welcome the artist Charlie Boisson and the curator Elsa Vettier for a discussion on the book Mémoire de l’oublieur, recently published by Les commissaires anonymes.
This publication presents Charlie Boisson’s creations during a residency at the Creux de l’Enfer in 2021, in collaboration with local residents, cartoonist Arnaud Descheemacker and blacksmith Pierre Pagès on a project dedicated to ‘moules à oublies’. The forerunner of the waffle and the wafer, the oublie is a fine pastry baked in a cast-iron mould decorated with relief motifs. Very popular in the Middle Ages, here the artist offers a contemporary reinterpretation.
Charlie Boisson (born 1980, lives and works in Paris) is graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Étienne. He is interested in enigmatic objects and images – instruments or parts of obsolete machines, traces and fragments of a lost symbolism. These are all found materials from which, in a patient process of transformation and assembly, he creates a kind of parallel world. Sculptures, objects and images are inserted into the exhibition space, duplicated and played off each other… Like embedded elements, trapped in a rebus of signs and shapes, where mystery and humour fight each other.
Elsa Vettier is an independent curator and art critic. Trained at the Ecole du Louvre and the University of Essex (UK), she regularly collaborates with specialized magazines including Zérodeux, Critique d’Art and others.
Her curatorial and editorial projects emerge in contact with artists and embrace a plurality of formats : between exhibition-performance (“Extasis Casual”, with Samuel Nicolle and Clara Pacotte, In-box Bruxelles, 2019), interview-fiction (Saint-Pierre-des-corps, with Jean-Charles de Quillacq, éd. Sombres Torrents, 2020) and radio collaborations (LL Drops, with Kevin Desbouis, Julie Sas and Fabien Vallos, *DUUU radio, 2020). She also supports artists in residencies (Les Chantiers, La Malterie…) and art schools.
*IMAGE_TEXTE is a series of discussions and readings, led by artists, photographers, publishers, graphic designers and theorists, to consider the Image in its broadest forms, proposed by delpire & co.
