IO BURGARD, \u00abDesiring objects\u00bb.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It happens many times that a flash of animism comes over us for a moment, and that in settling its eyes on an object,\nthe thought comes to mind that its presence is pleasant. We say something is transitive when it carries a directed\naction from a subject to an object. We experience precisely the inverse relation when we are in the presence of work\nby Io Burgard: suddenly the thing touches you, moves you, and you love it. How does it do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether embodied by drawing, sculpture or bas-relief, the works of Io Burgard seem endowed with some principle\nof inner life that presides over their form. Their hollows, their rounded edges and their polished surfaces prepare\nthings for an upcoming encounter. The Window of a Train is embellished with an indentation where an arm would\nrest, while a little ledge invites you to rest your chin. A welcome object, as the artist likes to call it, this sculpted\nwindow is shaped to the need for comfort often unmet in wandering contemplation. We are consoled by the objects:\nhere they are, soothing and comforting us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everywhere, it is form that bonds with you. The Musical Chair urges the body to be an interpreter. The mouthpiece\nand mouth are there, making this furniture the instrument of a junction between animate and inanimate beings. Its\ncurve towards the directed face organises the temptation of a breathless embrace. As an observer of their wild state,\nIo Burgard has chosen to show the desiring, not just desirable, side of objects. Basin, window and fountain draw to\nthem tongues and small hands. We believe we handle these things of little or nothing that populate ordinary and\neveryday life: here they are, captivating and revealing their acting functions to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The principle in physics of wave-particle duality offers by analogy a common denominator to these works. Unlike the\nconcepts of classical physics, this testifies to quantum objects sharing the properties of both particles and waves.\nWhether flat or with volume, Io Burgard's works all experience surges within their boundaries, in their silhouette, thus\nexceeding their formal expectations. The Little Canine Companion is their discrete insignia. This plaster emblem is\nas domestic as it is symbolic: an intermediary \u2013 it\u2019s the one that makes possible the coexistence of autonomy in\nanimals and in objects and sublimates their capacity to be loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The things of Io Burgard contain an ambiguity, which is to bring fantasy (drawing) into three-dimensionality\n(sculpture). The artist compiles the movements that inhabit the world and its animate and inanimate beings. She\npursues the decentring of the gaze that was initiated by Jean Arp\u2019s Man Seen by a Flower: in every transgression of\ntheir medium, the works of Io Burgard document the bursts of desire that join the world and its objects, and that\ncross the boundaries between the sensible and the invisible, the tangible and the palpable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Camille Richert<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PhD student under Laurence Bertrand Dorl\u00e9ac<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching Assistant at Sciences Po.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Manager\/Tutor of the 9th edition of the Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":21260,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-21258","exposition","type-exposition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-passees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition\/21258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}