Mennour Emergence #2: L鈥檋eure bleue
"The blue hour is that subtle, suspended, fleeting moment when day turns to night鈥攁n interval between light and dark that is neither dawn鈥檚 nor dusk鈥檚, expanding like a breath, a territory where outlines blur and certainty gives way to intuition. It鈥檚 an in between state halfway from dream to reality, between violence and gentleness. A moment that calls for contemplation, for exploring ambiguity, for looking further than appearances, for finding a fertile source of creation in the fragile and the transitory."
This second edition of Mennour Emergence brings together six artists who have recently graduated from the 脡cole des Arts D茅coratifs 鈥 PSL, the 脡cole Nationale Sup茅rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the 脡cole Nationale Sup茅rieure d鈥橝rts de Paris-Cergy. They have all been invited to produce original artworks, which are being exhibited here for the first time. Some of these new works are in continuity with those they produced for their diplomas, while others are already moving in new directions. Faced with today鈥檚 both ecological and more broadly societal issues, and the increasingly fragile balance of the world we inhabit, these artists call on us to deconstruct our ways of thinking and re-examine our convictions.
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"The blue hour is that subtle, suspended, fleeting moment when day turns to night鈥攁n interval between light and dark that is neither dawn鈥檚 nor dusk鈥檚, expanding like a breath, a territory where outlines blur and certainty gives way to intuition. It鈥檚 an in between state halfway from dream to reality, between violence and gentleness. A moment that calls for contemplation, for exploring ambiguity, for looking further than appearances, for finding a fertile source of creation in the fragile and the transitory."
This second edition of Mennour Emergence brings together six artists who have recently graduated from the 脡cole des Arts D茅coratifs 鈥 PSL, the 脡cole Nationale Sup茅rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and the 脡cole Nationale Sup茅rieure d鈥橝rts de Paris-Cergy. They have all been invited to produce original artworks, which are being exhibited here for the first time. Some of these new works are in continuity with those they produced for their diplomas, while others are already moving in new directions. Faced with today鈥檚 both ecological and more broadly societal issues, and the increasingly fragile balance of the world we inhabit, these artists call on us to deconstruct our ways of thinking and re-examine our convictions.