Curator: Maëlle Dault
Irene Abello was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1995. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. She lives in Paris and works in Bobigny (Le Wonder). She works from ephemeral natural phenomena, sometimes barely perceptible, which she treats as materials to be sculpted. Through minimal gestures, she crystallises the physical transformations of matter and transposes our perceptual experiences into installations, photographs and videos. Her works thus invite us to pay acute attention to the elusive variations of the real that manifest themselves in our everyday lives.
At a time when climate disruption is upending millions of lives and forcing entire populations into exile, the forces of nature are manifesting with unprecedented intensity. It is from this shifting and unpredictable matter that Irene Abello's work draws its substance. By capturing the metamorphoses of water, air, light or fire, the artist gives form to what usually escapes the gaze. Her works thus reveal the fragility of natural balances and invite us to consider, in the detail of an almost imperceptible transformation, the great upheavals of our world. Where climate catastrophes constitute the visible symptoms of a nature saturated by the excesses of our system, Irene Abello's work explores its subtler signs, making attention an experience that is both poetic and political.
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