Magical Entanglements - Inextricabilia

Nothing seems to connect a priori an Art Brut sculpture by Judith Scott, a Nkisi divination statuette from Congo, an 18th century French reliquary or captive photographs in a net by Annette Messager. Emanating from different countries, cultures, expressions and eras, these creations nevertheless maintain surprising similarities in terms of materials and techniques used and the creative process implemented. The analogies are striking in the way of binding, tying up, and tangling strings of hemp, hair, leather cords, gold threads, blades of grass, raffia, ropes or strips of fabric. Whether they are vegetable, organic or metallic, these assembled fibers - ingeniously sewn or interwoven, tightly knotted, caught in inextricable tangles - compose highly complex objects symbolic. Indeed, the similarities between these productions are not only formal and stylistic: each of these pieces is equipped with restorative, purifying or protective values ​​in order to ward off evil. They therefore play a spiritual, religious or magical role. Their authors Do they think they can establish a relationship between this world and the beyond through them? catalogue of the exhibition Inextricabilia. Magical Entanglements offers untangle these twists, these interlacings which give form to the unspeakable and to the elusive. Just like the exhibition, it invites you to a strange wandering among creations with multiple confluences.