Audrey Cottin in Paris

With the attractive exhibition Audrey Cottin: Charlie & Sabrina, qui l’eût cru? Paume Jeu, ends its “Satellite 4″ program. The exhibition will be open until the 5^th of February  2012, and will explore the subjectivity with an interesting proposal, including actions taken by this French artist in collaboration with different people, including several artists, who she invited to join her art world, where the creation works as an exchange.

It seems difficult to define Audrey Cottin’s work, which could qualify as performative sculpture, because of her usage of multiple platforms and the collaborations that she chooses, among which are: writers, artists, sculptors, or simply people. Through them, she ventures into the principles of fusion and association to achieve resonance and perfection. The resonance is inspired by a practice used in theater during the nineteenth century, in which the spectators were committed to clapping, to ensure the success of the play. The same that Cottin defined as: Clapping Groups to her performance. Here people come into a nice dynamic, which leads them to believe in the symbolic gesture of the applause as a collective act of gratitude and happiness. The Clapping last 20 minutes and are shared rhythm.

The exhibition is like a game, in which, Cottin uses multi-support and is fully interactive. To Cottin this is a very serious game, because it seeks to explain the collective vision of art, wondering about the authorship of a work, both in the forms and the results of it. For this, she has taken a series of photographs on the uprisings action of the works by other artists, in order to change the position of the object to be suspended, subverting its original position.

Everything has to do with the exchange, that troubling time when things flow and the point is lost. This is what Cottin investigates with her transfers, for which she connects with another artist at a distance, via satellite to see his performance.

Cottin is passionate about the materiality; nevertheless, her work is a collection of subjectivities. Through these, she explores what stresses the art and creation, as the notion of authorship that refers to the concept of individual development, self-concept of modernity, which is permanently questioned in the twentieth century. Michel Foucault argues that the author played the role of regulator the fiction since the nineteenth century, role characteristic of the industrial and bourgeois individualism, as well as the private property. Also, the notion of authorship was harshly criticized by the Bauhaus, he saw it in the use of the machine an ideal way to avoid the “artistic vanity.”

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Nancy Guzman

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Translated by: Hans
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