amélie

Jean Faucheur

"amélie"

photo découpée 

18 cm x 24 cm

2002

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Born in 1956 in Paris, live and work in Paris. France. He is considered a prominent figure of urban art thanks to his talent as a pioneer, taste for rupture, and acute sense of sharing. Armed with a solid classical education, he soon gained the fertile intuition that museums' walls must be brought down and give them a sky for a roof.

(http://www.jeanfaucheur.net/biocv/)

Jean Faucheur creates the work to show forth the drive-dimension of the look, and the relation of the look to the object of desire that institutes it as lack. This he achieves in two gestures that one could link to the dynamics of a Moebius strip. Lacan’s utilization of this topological figure (3) permits us to imagine that there are two sides to Faucheur’s procedure:        

-    From inside the body of the work, given that it explores the issue of lack in making a hole in the illusory completeness of the image, making it appear/disappear through spots of painting, braids, collages, and pixelization.        

-    From outside, in the interactive bodily experience of the viewer, which in its movement or immobility disrupts the bidimensional structure of the work, thanks to the prolongation in space of the lines of perspective, and to the fabrication of labyrinths constituted by the disposition of the installation and a play with light.

(http://www.jeanfaucheur.net/reviews/)

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This work demonstrates Shape as an element of design in that there are actual circles and rectangles repeated throughout the piece, breaking up the work and giving the viewer areas to focus on. 

It demonstrates Focal Point as a principle of design in that the piece is visually focused on the center. One can almost see a spiral effect enhancing this feature of driving our focus ever inward. 

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We chose this work because it ties into the idea of being lost in the moment - seeing every aspect of your choice. The binary aspect of “right and wrong”, “yes or no” is shown as each circle is the opposite of the reality in which it was cut. These choices swirl all around us, frozen in time - a multitude of possible choices, each branching out into an uncertain future. As you contemplate these choices you are hurtling from the moment of it, were you right, were you wrong, which path have you been thrust upon, and has the choice been actively made, or made for you?