Birthdays, the impatience to celebrate them, the delicious anticipation of imagining the joys and pleasures of celebrating them, undoing and redoing the guest list, are high moments of childhood celebration. Time fades them and repetition extinguishes their intensity, making them familiar, patinated with the predictability of repeating.
It is this original effervescence that Coline Gaulot, visual artist, has brought back to life by freezing it in the celebratory piece, the culmination of these memories, the birthday cake.
The artist presents 26 white porcelain birthday cakes topped with birthday candles at the Museum of Earthenware and Tableware in Samadet.
Named "the great fire", for the mini vanity pyres captured forever in porcelain, devoid of color like an emotional transfer where each person can imprint the echo of their memory which now belongs to us.
A delicate and joyful return to childhood through that of the artist.
The Great Fire (Joyeux A) Coline Gaulot
Until October 29, 2023
Departmental Museum of Earthenware and Tableware, Samadet (40)
