Ariane Crovisier is a self-taught sculptor and art therapist, gesture is her saving verb which, like a living wave, captures, transmits, transforms and liberates.
She shapes the earth as much as the void, which she works as a material in its own right in the Chinese manner and in which emerges the intimate dialogue that she establishes with the earth.
His sculptures invite us to a ballet of intimacy, a silent correspondence where the material fully deploys its emotional power.
The void is a shelter, a haven of meaning, emotions and mineral poetry, and its exploration changes, thanks to the different possible supports of each sculpture that we place according to our own sensory peregrinations, and offers an almost infinite rediscovery.
There is a strong echo of the works of Savin Couelle, who worked on the sensitive and the intimate through architecture, using the living space as a medium; Ariane Crovisier's sculptures offer an emotional shelter in the absence of a habitat, but in the same vein, in the same questioning of the intimate.
In this untying of matter, strength and vulnerability are on first contact and emanate from the same gesture, closely linked, almost melted into one another.
She likes the fact that we can project what we want onto it and make what we see our own. For her, human, animal, plant and mineral elements intermingle, merging and offering themselves fully to each person's universe.
The sculpture she chose to present is called Hito, or "standing woman" in Japanese. It is a work that is different from her usual path.
While all his pieces have several supports and can be placed as we wish, this one has only one base and yet illustrates the quintessence of his work, in his choice to play with textures, exposed and sheltered spaces, all tied together in a unique momentum.
Hito soars more than any of Ariane's other sculptures, it is erected with aplomb, a struggle between matter and emptiness, a surge towards and into life, an affirmation and a triumph sweeping away doubts.
She evokes meditation, the feminine, sensuality, incarnation. A woman standing in every possible sense.
