Sans titre

three poems painted on the walls, graphite
variable dimensions

Untitled, 2001, consists of a set of three poems painted on the walls and subsequently covered with graphite. These poems are constructed from a collage of sentences or sentence fragments that Morgane Lépinay selected from the press. The words come together, clash, and call into question their own value and meaning. Removed from their original context and transformed into visual symbols, the artist tests the ability of words to define reality and express singularity.

Alexandra Gillet

“The work takes on substance and meaning through the interplay of contiguity, additions and subtractions, and the reassembly of fragments cut from the press, as well as popular and literary expressions, reoriented within a narrative and visual framework. The artist casts an uncompromising gaze on a daily and spectacular reality that she reworks […] A dialectic between words, the self, and others—the act of writing, while expressing a singularity in contrast to the general, eludes autobiographical narrative and the temptation to withdraw into oneself. Beyond the small daily worries, the artist subtly reveals an intimacy that would otherwise remain hidden and unmentionable—secret moods and quirks, whimsical behaviors, or states of mind unsuitable for disclosure. Morgane Lépinay explores the ego, the intimate, and the body, delving with sensitivity and sincerity into what lies within us. The blank page is that permissive space where our uncertainties, doubts, and contradictions come together.”

Fanny Poussier, exhibition catalog Echos – Graphies, Rennes : La Criée centre d’art contemporain, 2001