« J’ai toujours répondu que ça me paraissait être dans l’ordre des choses. Peut-être parce que les peintures murales ne disparaissent jamais vraiment, elles perdurent sous les couches qui les recouvrent. »
Flora Moscovici est née en 1985, elle vit et travaille à Paris.
En pensant la peinture comme une seconde peau qui épouse aussi bien l’architecture que de multiples supports, les interventions de Flora Mos- covici nous révèlent la profondeur picturale des espaces dans lesquels elle est invitée.
Elle recouvre et révèle simultanément l’environnement et ses usages, en adaptant sa technique en fonction du contexte (pigments appliqués à la brosse, peinture acrylique pulvérisée au pistolet, chaux, tempera...).
La lumière et le vide sont au cœur de sa recherche, permettant d’obser- ver un lieu nu, au-delà de sa fonctionnalité.
Ses peintures modifient la perception de l’espace et convoquent différentes temporalités, celle du geste pictural, la mémoire du lieu, et l’histoire de la peinture entre sacré et vernaculaire.
Le travail de Flora Moscovici a été exposé entre autres, au MAMAC à Nice, au Centre Pompidou à Paris, au Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes, au Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine à Bordeaux ou durant le Voyage à Nantes. Elle a aussi réalisé des commandes pour la Villa Albertine à New York, la Maison Hermès, le Ministère de la Culture ou le CNAP.
Flora Moscovici was born in 1985 and currently resides and works in Paris.
Conceiving painting as a second skin that embraces both architecture and various supports, Flora Moscovici's interventions reveal the pictorial depth of the spaces in which she is invited. Simultaneously covering and exposing the environment and its uses, she adapts her technique according to the context (applying pigments with a brush, using spray acrylic paint, lime, tempera, among others).
Light and emptiness lie at the heart of her exploration, allowing the observation of a space beyond its functionality. Her paintings alter the perception of space and evoke different temporalities—the gestural moment, the memory of the place, and the history of painting, oscillating between the sacred and the vernacular.
Flora Moscovici's work has been exhibited, among other places, at MAMAC in Nice, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes, the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Bordeaux, and during the Voyage à Nantes. She has also undertaken commissions for institutions such as Villa Albertine in New York, Maison Hermès, the Ministry of Culture, and the CNAP.
Texte paru dans le journal de l’exposition. MAMAC, Nice, 2022
Camille Paulhan, Ville Songe.
Text published in the exhibition journal. MAMAC, Nice, 2022
For several years now, Flora Moscovici has been soaking: tarps, ceilings, floors, clothes, hangings, buses, poles, flags, and smooth picture rails like rubble stone walls. Her pigments penetrate surfaces, blend into spaces, and become one with them, tolerating a life of their own, sometimes even withering away over time. Flora Moscovici's paintings are not, as the saying goes, a "window opening onto". They overflow, they don't hold still, and their colourful power spreads beyond the supports: into our retinas, perhaps, for that matter. They're very willing to accept their volatility, their singular vibration.
When she proposes in situ projects, Flora Moscovici looks for starting points and follows them without knowing the final form in advance. She scouts wander, photographs, consults archives, and composes a mental colour chart that will later enable her to find the best shades. Ville Songe, chose to work directly on the concrete walls of the MAMAC terraces, accepting the roughness of the support.
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