PASSAGES
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
9 RUE JEANNE D'ARC — TROYES
Born in 1974 and based in Paris, Dominique Blais continues his work on sensory and physical perception in sound and light installations that play on combinations of the visible/invisible and audible/inaudible. He invites contemplation by blurring the boundaries between the senses. He confirms a coherent, accurate artistic approach, intelligently bringing together different media at the frontier between visual arts and sound creation.
Imperceptible but present elements are at the heart of Dominique Blais’ research. The formal elements belong to the everyday world, the sounds are often commonplace, as if to emphasize the imperceptible sediment that accompanies life, such as his sound chandelier, presented at the Triennale d’art contemporain / o Force de lA * in Paris, a true musical composition based on noises. Indeed, the work presents itself as the sound imprint of space. The artist made various recordings during the site’s periods of inactivity, thus bringing out the almost imperceptible sounds (squeaks, creaks, drips, etc.).
Dominique Blais assembles conditions that enable mental representations. These works tend to play on absence to make room for the coexistence of things, shifts, and thus the imagination. The tension of sound material in silent action, the circulation of invisible energy flows. The erasure of the object’s properties: the realms of light and sound intertwine poetically in the experience, an intelligence of opposites where boundaries evaporate and sublimate.
The exhibition is open to the public from February 26 to April 30, 2010.
