Marie Gastini

The painter is absent. However, traces of his passage through this summer studio can be found in every corner. He groped for the subject of his next painting. He promised himself that he wouldn’t leave the room until it appeared to him. To do this, he set up makeshift facilities, a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom in a corner. He stretched and stretched and stretched his curtains, which now mark the boundaries of his living spaces.
He quickly went back to looking for his subject. The summer will be over, and he won’t even get a glimpse of it.
In his frenzy, he covers the walls with his palettes, the tiles, the floor and the ceiling. Then he calms down, looks out of the window hoping to find inspiration. He contemplates nature in full bloom, lavender, rosemary, lemon trees… These smells… They embroider his modest bedding, his dressing gowns and his curtains with boutis. No textile escapes them.
He doesn’t really dress himself any more. He alternates between his three dressing gowns, and bathrobes?, almost identical so that he doesn’t have to think about it. In the kitchen, a huge bouquet of flowers perfumes the warm air continuously. In the bathroom, Marseille soap proliferates and adorns the wall with an unusual necklace.
We’re no longer quite sure whether we’re in time, tomorrow or yesterday. Brushes have become fossils. And yet! How long ago did it evaporate?

PROJECT REALISED WITH THE SUPPORT OF:

Vieujot plaster (walls and floor)
Ocre de France (pigments)
Pierre Frey (fabrics)
Ceramics developed with Louis Danjou (ceramic artist)
La verrerie de Biot (loan of objects)
La savonnerie Marius Fabre