Morgane Le Guillan

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From the Topographic to the Organic and back

There was once a village called Sacy-le-Petit (60) - 484 inhabitants living in various properties, which together take the form of a star, with the village green at its centre. Nothing very special about that, you might think, until Morgane Le Guillan got to work on it, that is.

Inspired by microbiology and the recurring forms of living cells, Le Guillan’s world is organised around a population of anthropomorphic sculptures, familiar but disturbing. Some of these, filled with sand, look like unfinished formless dolls; others, more globular, covered with phallic pimples, resemble the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Folded in the palm of the hand, the material sometimes retracts and takes offence, like the folds of the female sex, or spreads out in big gelatinous drops.

The Park (2002), one of her more ambitious works, is strange and disturbing, but also attractive because of its candy colours. The work consists of organic and sensual forms piled at the centre of a huge playpen. Flexible and soft, the skin of these forms is made of latex in tender shades of pink, yellow, green, blue and purple. Round and supple as marshmallow, they accumulate on top of one another in a formless heap. Metaphors of childhood desires, these poignant hybrids look like babies from another world.

Invited to the Château de Sacy, Morgane le Guillan wanted to widen her apprehension of the micro-organic to the scale of this small municipality. From the plan of the village, she imagined the possibility of a body divided into as many cells as there were plots of land.

Each one, determined by a colour, would have a particular function, sometimes vital, sometimes only of entertainment value. A certain ambiguity would be suggested by their titles: “aire d’intensification” or “espace des gametes victorieux”. This organic representation of the village of Sacy is laid out as a carpet game on a latex backing. A single rule has to be followed: appropriate the spaces occupied by the vital functions and defend the village against viral attacks from outside. Pink and green balloons resembling inflated foreskins, represent the villagers and visitors. Barefoot, or armed with sticks, they are invited to come and fight it out.

The inhabitants must try to re-appropriate the alveoli which represent the plots of land where their houses and gardens are located, and in doing so occupy flesh and blood “zones de turbulence”, whether to do with the lungs or the digestive system, or risking a fall into the urinal pocket. Players may choose the play-areas they find most attractive, from the nerve centre in mauve, to the dark pink “centre vasculaire”, which also represents the space where the exhibition takes place. Again, expressive and attractive colours play an important part in Le Guillan’s work. Pastel tints have a double edge: they have the innocence of childhood, of candy and summer, representing temptation, but, at the same time, their sweetness and naivety symbolise the ambiguity of seduction and pleasure, for under their uneasy beauty lies a battlefield.

With the help of this ingenious game, Morgane Le Guillan interrogates the life of a small village, in the hope that it will become a meeting place, even if the inhabitants and visitors do occasionally collide.


Previous Work

Sans titre

Sans titre
variable dimensions, 500 “élastomères”, 2003

Le supermarché

Le supermarché
variable dimensions, 2nd generation, 2003


Morgane Le Guillan

Le parc

Le parc
204x200x70cm, wood, foam, latex, 2002

Morgane Le Guillan Born in Guérande, 1975 Live and works in Nantes E-mail lg.morgane@wanadoo.fr Web http://perso.wanadoo.fr/art-cade/archive-2002.html Solo Exhibitions
2007
Galerie 1 sur 1, Brussels, Belgium
2005
Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun
2004

Territoire

, Château de Sacy, Sacy-le-Petit Centre de Sculpture, Mairie de Montolieu, Aude
2002

Défaut de Surveillance

, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille Group Exhibitions (selection)
2007
Evres en Argonne

Le huitième péché

, Galerie.be, Brussels, Belgium
2006
3ème biennale d’art contemporain, Saint-Cloud

Seuils d’intensité

, Nantes
2005

Le regard des autres

, Biennale d’art contemporain, Saint-Brieuc
2004
2nd biennale de St Cloud

Aquarium

, Paris

L’humour dans l’art

, Lille
2003

Aberration

, Centre de Sculpture, Montolieu

Trabendo

, Multiples d’artistes, Astérides, Marseille 48th Salon d’Art Contemporain, Montrouge Jeune Création, Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris
2001
Portes ouvertes, Ateliers 27, Reims
2000

Une journée de chien

, Reims Portes ouvertes, Ateliers 27, Reims
1999

Aujourd’8

, Centre Culturel, Pongivart

Skyn & Body

, Galerie Aréa, Paris
1998
Collège des Jésuites, Reims

Café Internet

, Brno, Czech Republic Festival international de vidéo, Reims
1997
Festival vidéo

Bandits-Mages

, Bourges

Comme un poisson dans…

, Reims

Photographies

, ESAD, Reims Residencies
2004
Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun Château de Sacy, Sacy-le-Petit
2003
Centre de Sculpture, Montolieu
2001-2002
Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille Catalogues
2004

Art et Humour

, Lille
2003
Jeune Création Salon de Montrouge Education & Awards
1999-2000
History of Arts at the Sorbonne, Paris
1995-1999
Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Reims
1993-1995
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans
1999
Diplôme National Supérieur d’Etudes Plastiques
1997
Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques