Projects & Exhibitions
CURRENT & PAST …
HIGHLIGHTS…
ALONG THE WAY
EXHIBITION
FOLKESTONE UK, June 2023
The "Along the Way" exhibition is a collaboration between painter Johanna Baudou and ceramist Jules Degroot. Jules and Johanna met while studying at Central Saint Martins where they became close friends..
The exhibition features a series of solo paintings by Johanna Baudou and ceramic vessels created by Jules, which are then collectively painted by both artists in Folkestone.
Jules employs the coiling technique to craft these striking vessels, a process that requires time and builds up the ceramic over several weeks, allowing for contemplation and reflection.
Johanna's paintings depict a transient time, where fragmented images emerge. They evoke questions about our human condition, the feeling of being lost within the vastness of time and space. In these distant lands, the mystery of our origins and destiny intertwines with the search for solace within nature.
The works of Jules and Johanna imply a world that surpasses temporal and spatial boundaries, a place where the mind and eyes can travel and inhabit. The pieces are interconnected, forming a chain that describes a world where rites of passage, and metaphorical journeys find their place.
The "Along the Way" exhibition captures the essence of a dynamic and evolving journey. It emphasises the significance of shifting time and the transformative experiences we encounter as we navigate our individual and collective paths.
JUJU ceramics & Johanna Baudou
FOLKESTONE UK, June 2023
“My work is a celebration of imperfections, seeking beauty and expression rather than exact results.”
_ Jules Cross
“We all have an unbreakable bond with a landscape in which we have engraved our roots.
This landscape, this link with the earth, I find in the creation of ceramic pieces. For me this material describes a world of permanence and impermanence, a space that is maintained in the echo of a fleeting time.”
_ Johanna Baudou
ARCHIVE:
UNFOLDING REALITIES
EXHIBITION SAO PAULO, Brazil
The 'Unfolding realities' series joins two different spaces that meet and confront each other: striated space and smooth space, as defined by the philosophers Deleuze and Guattari in their book Mille Plateaux. The striated space is a codified space: a space dotted with roads, corridors, wires, where all sorts of flows take place. The smooth space is an elusive space: fluid, vibrant, open and free. My paintings are at the border of these two spaces, a porous border with no real end or beginning.
Above all in these paintings I wish to express the musicality of space, to exalt colours, to reveal invisible lines, to extract the harmonious and yet fragmented movements of the horizon, to travel from the tiny to the vast.
IN THE MAKING:
SUSPENDED ROOTS
Suspended Roots questions the different layers of human existence, placing art on the scale time longevity. In other words, the project attempts to inscribe the activity of artistic production in a reflection on the importance of memorial preservation, as a victory over the culture of immediacy of the 21st century.
The title evokes the danger of the loss of our ancestral roots, both cultural and in direct link with nature in the face of our fast lifestyle transformation. The project aims to explore and understand the link that connects us to a deeper, timeless dimension in dialogue with the environments and cultures that inhabit us.
ExTracT
ARCHIVE:
“ExTract”, (en français Extraire) est un travail qui se compose de petits collages inspirés par les estampes de Hiroshige. Johanna Baudou y extrait des couleurs, des espaces et des sentiments. Elle pose la question: comment l’art peut contribuer à la visualisation de nouveaux mondes, de nouvelles façons de voir le paysage, et nous plonger dans l’immensité du temps.
“Extract” explore ainsi la dimension trans-temporelle et trans-spatiale de l’Art et de la poétique.
VOYAGE ONIRIQUE
ARCHIVE:
Pour l’exposition, Johanna Baudou, à présenté des œuvres récentes qui mettent en scène des paysages, des couleurs et des personnages à l’écoute de son imaginaire. Dans cette série d’œuvres les aspirations introverties sont vécues et assumées plus librement par l’artiste. Son travail s’inspire entre autre de Kandinsky et du mouvement “Le Cavalier bleu” fondé en 1912.
Ces toiles ne sont pas un retour sur le passé, mais des œuvres bien ancrées dans le temps présent. En effet, face à l’incertitude et l’instabilité actuelle – ces toiles lumineuses et colorées cherchent par la force imaginative à retrouver les valeurs de l’espérance, replaçant l’art à l’échelle de la longévité du temps.
COLOUR FIELD
ARCHIVE:
L’installation “Colour Field” est composée de barres en céramiques suspendues dans le vide qui forment à la fois une unité de mesure et s’étirent dans l’espace. Les couleurs dégradées de chaque pièce évoquent un fragment de paysage et d’horizon, faisant référence à l’idée du visible et de l’invisible, de la présence et de l’absence.
« Colour field » décrit un monde de la permanence et de l’impermanence fait de milliers de fragments qui bougent délicatement, se décomposent et se recomposent dans l’écho d’un temps fugitif. Chaque pièce est fabriquée et peinte à la main.