| Damien Blottière constructs, models and deforms space, and then inserts figures into it, and does all this using just cardboard. This is how he creates new universes. His often saturated environments paradoxically recall the work of Gregor Schneider, although Blottière’s are dreamlike and poetic. A world of cardboard pulp carries us into the land of fairytales, through the house of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and through Alice in Wonderland, following their shifting holds on reality. Blottière’s work also suggests the influence of Méliès and a likeness to the work of Michel Gondry.
Damien Blottière manipulates his materials – cardboard, stuffing and thread – to attain a bric-a-brac, minimal-effort aesthetic. He thus brings the spectator into another reality, just slightly displaced, constructed from disembodied representations that foster the imagination, taking as a point of departure old-time, magnificent flights of fancy that are fitting of a contemporary Professor Cuthbert Calculus of art. |
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