This week the latest installation by Parisian-born visual artist Flore Nove-Josserand will arrive, appropriately, into the urban jungle that is Birmingham's Digbeth. The work is called City Growth Blues: It's about a frenzied city of a million people and her vision for its future.
The single thread running through Flore Nove-Josserand's prolific work would seem to be to her mission to get us to look at our world in ways we've never looked at it before. People have spoken of the"unsettling subversions" within her work, the "slightly disturbing irregularities." Her installations have always been site-specific, a reaction to a particular space. It's said that only by experiencing them can you fully comprehend her messages.
Image 3 is named 'Late at Night', and typically it uses everything from tinfoil to pins. It's one of a series called The Hours - mostly they depict different times of day, however, one is quite simply called 'Tomorrow'. A little glimpse of tomorrow sneaking into the present - is that what this exhibition will do?
The single thread running through Flore Nove-Josserand's prolific work would seem to be to her mission to get us to look at our world in ways we've never looked at it before. People have spoken of the"unsettling subversions" within her work, the "slightly disturbing irregularities." Her installations have always been site-specific, a reaction to a particular space. It's said that only by experiencing them can you fully comprehend her messages.
Image 3 is named 'Late at Night', and typically it uses everything from tinfoil to pins. It's one of a series called The Hours - mostly they depict different times of day, however, one is quite simply called 'Tomorrow'. A little glimpse of tomorrow sneaking into the present - is that what this exhibition will do?
City Growth Blues opens at Eastside Projects in Birmingham on 19 September 2015 until 12 December 2015 (with a public preview on 18 September, 6-8pm)
1 Listen to Me, fluid collage with 2x Signorina magnets and assorted papers, 2015. 2 Late at Night from a series called The Hours, 2011. 3 Taster of "City Growth Blues, 2015
Images by kind permission of Flore Nove-Josserand.
