Diagnole Du Fou
[ 29.09 – 29.11 / 2016 ]
SPRMRKT
SPRMRKT is thrilled to present Diagonale du Fou, a solo exhibition by Ho Chi Minh City-based artist Sandrine Llouquet. Not immediately translatable, the show’s title refers to the various edges and planes of consciousness and reality that are connected through Llouquet’s non-linear, multi-layered, preternatural drawings — the ‘crazy diagonals’.
Sandrine Llouquet creates a personal syncretism that results from her indepth reading and research into a multitude of schools of thought: from ancient Greek philosophy, Foucault, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Jung; the exploration of Alchemy; through to the study of religion and rituals, especially paganism and animism. Her work is “a marriage of the uncanny and the familiar” — as in Freud’s Das Unheimliche — with recognizable images from a variety of different sources, combined to create dream-like tableaux.
Llouquet explores ritual transformation and the transmutation of reality, which is composed of archetypal imagery. By juxtaposing known elements with strange and eerie surroundings, Llouquet, much in the same guise as a psychologist, hypnotist or guru, stimulates the deepest recesses of our unconscious and memory. Recurrent characters populate her scenes — faceless,
masked, half-animal. Referencing myriad ritualistic and cultural traditions, the compositions exude an illusory higher knowledge of the world and of our place in the universe
Sandrine Llouquet
Born in 1975 in Montpellier, France, Sandrine Llouquet has lived in Vietnam since 2005. She graduated from École Pilote Internationale d’Art et de Recherche – Villa Arson in 1999. A dynamic contributor to the development of contemporary art in Vietnam, she was a founding member of Wonderful District, a project that promotes contemporary art through exhibitions, concerts and theater pieces, as well as a member of Mogas Station, a Vietnam-based artist collective. Llouquet’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California and Tate Modern, London. She has also participated in a number of biennales with Mogas Station such as the Shenzhen Biennale (2007), the Singapore Biennale (2006) and in Migration Addicts – a collateral event of the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her drawings, objects and videos are in private collections around the world.
