Valerie Sonnier, Distant Proximity, Centrale for contemporary Art, Bruxelles (2)

(…) Valérie Sonnier’s (Fr) drawings and films also evoke ‘the house inside her’. It is her childhood home with its untended garden, a place ‘destined for demolition by the property developers, which obstinately seals her secrets, those of her nature and of her remembrances’. In this way Valérie Sonnier’s brilliant drawings become visualisations of the passing of time, of her life with its secrets and lies, bedrocks of any existence, but also of death. It is the uninterrupted course of an experience, which contains the substratum of another life. A past life that she tries to capture by video, like a ghost wandering around this abandoned house. As though haunted by the memory, all her works have a ‘worrying strangeness’ (Unheimliche by Sigmund Freud). It embodies an auratic form ‘which is situated between an in front of and an inside.’ The visitor is in an uncomfortable yet intense position ‘which defines our entire experience, when what looks back at us in what we see is revealed to us. (Carine Fol)

Valerie Sonnier

Valerie Sonnier
sans titre (sous la neige)
technique mixte sur papier
26 x 20 cm
2010

Valerie Sonnier

Valerie Sonnier
sans titre (sous la neige)
technique mixte sur papier
26 x 26,5 cm
2010

Valerie Sonnier

Valerie Sonnier
sans titre (sous la neige)
technique mixte sur papier
26 x 20 cm
2010

Valerie Sonnier

Valerie Sonnier
sans titre (sous la neige)
technique mixte sur papier
26 x 26,5 cm
2010

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