Swallowing the mist and disappearing, Irene Abello's Project Room

Curator: Maëlle Dault

Irene Abello was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1995. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. She lives in Paris and works in Bobigny (Le Wonder). She works with ephemeral natural phenomena, sometimes barely perceptible, which she treats as materials to be sculpted. Through minimal gestures, she crystallizes the physical transformations of matter and transposes our perceptual experiences into installations, photographs, and videos. Her pieces thus invite acute attention to the elusive variations of reality that manifest in our daily lives.

At a time when climate disruption is upending millions of lives and forcing entire populations into exile, the forces of nature are manifesting with unprecedented intensity. It is this moving and unpredictable matter that feeds Irene Abello's work. By capturing the metamorphoses of water, air, light, or fire, the artist gives form to what usually escapes the gaze. Her works thus reveal the fragility of natural balances and invite us to consider, in the detail of an almost imperceptible transformation, the great upheavals of our world. Where climate catastrophes constitute the visible symptoms of a nature saturated by the excesses of our system, Irene Abello's work explores its more subtle signs, making attention a both poetic and political experience.

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