Intuition(s)
Yves Hoffmann Gallery, Solo show, Paris – 2002
Chapelle Saint Jacques, Solo show, St Gaudens – 2002
Lycée Agricole, Permanent Commission, Aux Arts Lycéens program, Fondettes – 2003
Galerie de l’ancien collège, Poussières et partitions
Duo show with Susan Jennings, Châtellerault – 2005
Banque Populaire, Permanent Commission, Tours – 2012
Site-specific painting
Colored gloss varnish on wall
The work presented by Cécile Pitois is as discreet as the phenomenon it takes as its starting point: air currents. The artist’s process is limited to a wall on which arrows are painted, barely visible when varnished. They trace the movement of air currents, which she studied previously, along the wall. Here, the artist explores the notion of impermanence and invites viewers to question perception and its reality.
“The present moment is when the lighthouse reenters darkness between two flashes of light, it’s the instant between the tick and tock of a watch, it’s a vacant interval sliding indefinitely through time, the break between past and future, the empty interval at the poles of a rotating magnetic field, infinitesimal but real in the end; it’s the pause in a chronicle, the void between events.” Forms of time – Remarks on the history of things – Georges Kubler