The materiality of space, combined with that of sculpture, merge to form a whole that summons light, whether direct sunlight, the infinitely varied veils of clouds, or the electric or lunar light of night.
After working on the potential of black, referring to domestic and urban materials such as blinds and iron curtains, Justin Weiler explores the delicate powers of color, always operating in layers and superimpositions.
Through a repeated gesture, he offers here a sensitive work that never ceases to change according to the time of day and the point of view.
Justin Weiler, born in 1990, lives between Paris and Nantes. He trained at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Métropole and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, from which he graduated in 2017. He was a resident at Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (2019/2020) and his work has received various distinctions, most recently the Prix Beaux-arts de Paris / Collection Société Générale in 2021. He created an artist's room at the Hôtel de France in Nantes, invited as part of the 2019 edition of Le Voyage à Nantes.
General curator:
Sophie Lévy, curatorial director of the Musée d'arts de Nantes.
Scientific curator:
Katell Jaffrès, head of contemporary art collections at the Musée d'arts de Nantes.
Caption and credits
Justin Weiler, Daedalus, 2022