Anne-Lise Coste
Me, Mi, Ma; Vou, Vi, Voi; Lo, Li, La; Pa, Po, Pou; Su, Sou Seu Anne-Lise Coste is constantly engaging in dialogue with found objects. Working directly onto them with airbrush, she sets up an immediate resignification that does not seek to elevate the apparent banality of the object, but rather to express semiotic ambiguity. Drawing from the surrealist and dada movements, Coste plays with the mismatch between the object and the painted word. A syllabic system is sprayed on the glass panels of the windows. Reminiscent of how spoken and written language is taught at schools, the concatenation of words generates a poem made up of sounds. A leitmotiv in her practice, the artist performs a lyrical deconstruction of the objects as an embodied principle against dogmatism and arbitrariness.
