{"id":8893,"date":"2021-05-11T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/oeuvres\/le-va-et-vient-des-pierres-electriques-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:23:39","slug":"le-va-et-vient-des-pierres-electriques","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/artworks\/le-va-et-vient-des-pierres-electriques\/","title":{"rendered":"Le va-et-vient des pierres \u00e9lectriques"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes and Semitan (Nantes\u2019 transportation network) have once again joined forces \u2013 this time to invite artist Am\u00e9lie Bertrand to take over two trams and create mobile paintings that hurdle through the urban landscape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Am\u00e9lie Bertrand\u2019s paintings can be described as lavish and colorful, filled with otherworldly landscapes that are hermetically sealed off from any sense of horizon or perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She works with a repertoire of shapes which she forages from the world. Some of her more common motifs are grids, stones, bricks, paving stones, fences, chains, quilting points, foliage, palms, and vines, to name a few.
She then composes a world of shapes and colours taken from a fantasized, virtual realm \u2013 images that are sterile and artificial, devoid of any human presence, thus making it impossible for spectators to lose themselves in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing the trams as two objects that cut through the cityscape, Am\u00e9lie Bertrand digitally composed a d\u00e9cor from the repertoire of shapes and memories she built during her visit to Nantes. 
Camouflaging the trams by covering them in images of rocks and paving stones, Am\u00e9lie Bertrand has composed two synthetic landscapes that will surge forth like mirages through the neighbourhoods they visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t

Am\u00e9lie Bertrand was born in 1985. She lives and works in Paris. She is represented by Galerie S\u00e9miose (Paris).
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