Charlotte Beaudry

La pratique artistique protéiforme de Charlotte Beaudry s’exprime au départ dans différents médias, allant de la peinture à la vidéo en passant par le dessin ou la performance. Son art révèle une approche libre, légèrement punk engagée et nourrie de culture musicale et d’engagements féministes. Pour Bye Bye His‑Story, chapter 5050, nous activons une édition imprimée sur sweat shirts dont les motifs peints, perçus de prime abord de façon essentiellement décorative, se découvrent à un examen plus attentif. S’y adjoint une installation plastique et additive de toiles représentant des vieux amplis vintage, doublée d’un tirage lithographique du même motif. Grésillant de peinture frémissante, elles semblent exprimer le cri souvent silencieux des laissés‑pour‑compte, des voix oubliées, voire occultées, de notre société ou de notre histoire.

English

Charlotte Beaudry’s protean artistic practice was from the start expressed in different media, ranging from painting to video, and including drawing and performance. Her art reveals a free, slightly punk approach that is socially aware and nourished by musical culture and feminist engagement. Taking pleasure in disrupting scale, she often gives a monumental form to her subjects, which accentuates their expressive and symbolic potential, removing them from triviality and overwhelming the viewer, whom she deliberately, though not harshly, takes out of his comfort zone. For Bye Bye His-Story, chapter 5050, we are presenting an edition printed on sweatshirts, the painted patterns of which, initially appearing as essentially decorative, reveal more upon closer examination. There is also a visual and additive installation of canvases depicting old vintage amps, echoing in an amplified way a lithograph of the same subject, edited by Bruno Robbe. Sizzling with quivering paint, these canvases seem to express the often-silent cry of those who are left behind, forgotten or even hidden voices of our society or our history.