Michel Archambault | Les inéluctables

Ma pratique dans le domaine de la sculpture m’a incité à m’investir, à questionner l’abstraction des choses. À cette recherche se jouxte une attirance instinctive, liée au procédé, à une manière de faire, par l’utilisation de matériaux bruts, fait main. La présence de la matière textile est récurrente dans ma production, elle répond au tactile, à la sensation et s’attribue une part de l’intime, parfois je l’associe à des trames sonores elle me permet ainsi de penser l’objet sculptural comme un environnement émotif (Where is Julian? Installation Sonore_Solo Centre Circa 2007). La mise en situation de ces composantes dispose à une réflexion sur l’objet, la place quelle détient dans notre environnement, sa force d’évocation, associé au corps, disséquer en termes intérieur-extérieur, à son habitat, ce qui l’enveloppe, à l’énergie qui le constitue.

Les reliefs EMMAÜS et SALEM proposent une matérialité de nature primitive que j’enveloppe d’une matière minérale qui incitent au magique, au rituel.

– Michel Archambault

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As part of the project Les inéluctables, come discover the sculptures of Michel Archambault in our office space!
This exhibition is presented from November 15, 2014 to January 17, 2015.

My practice has led me to question the abstraction of things. I aim to dematerialize certain constitutive elements governed by traditional sculpture although the production methods I employ, translate the process of sculpting, combining materials and parts, by hand. I use deliberately simple means and materials, blending boundaries between craftwork, painting and sculpture. At times associated to immersive soundscapes, the sculptural object becomes an emotive environment (Where is Julian? Solo_Circa Center 2007).

Creating is a form of ritual, of intensive involvement, where I construct schematized, multi-layered sculptures composed of several skin-like membranes bruised/scarred by overuse, and the impacts of change, time and place, aiming to evoke both beauty and neglect at the same time. There are many binaries and dualities within recent work such as the contrasts between hard and soft, heavy and light, organic and inorganic. Devoid of restrictions and through the irregular and unpredictable processes of creation, reliefs like EMMAÜS and SALEM propose a primitive materiality, where I tend to emphasize oppositions between seductive and repelling materialities, using eye-catching reflective gold or silver pigments, coating and contaminating these 3D assemblages that hint at their own disintegration.

The ambiguity of the subject matter is intentional on my part, at the end of the process, I want to create work that offers diverse associations and readings, somehow I like the evocation of some-thing fictional, but at the same time credible that questions a form of fragility and equally reflects a somber future or a past history.

– Michel Archambault

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archambaultm.blogspot.ca