Maya Hewitt at IMOCA (Irish Museum of Contemporary Art) Dublin

A project by Blandine Gwizdala, featuring new works by : MARIE CHARTRON, BRUNO COSTANTINI, DAMIEN DEROUBAIX, MAYA HEWITT, FABRICE LANGLADE, ARNO E. MATHIEU, OLIVIER MILLAGOU, MIHAEL MILUNOVIC, MAËL NOZAHIC, LUCIE PICANDET, ASSAN SMATI, BARHÉLÉMY TOGUO and VUK VIDOR
 
The feeling of escaping lies in all of us, a quest of the ideal, a drift, a deep wish to go beyond, not only in the surpassing of the being, but in a real knowledge and acceptance of self. This process, sometimes painful, sometimes frightening generates the feeling of freedom, this impress that all is possible, unlimited, a feeling of relief given to a comeback to the essence. To characterize the pure fact of being, Emmanuel Levinas developed the phenomenology of nausea. We feel sick, it hurts deep inside and we feel trapped in a kind of infinite spiral of the nausea state, which precedes the vomit and the vomit will deliver us. Hope of escaping. These previous years, society evolved, transformed, adapted to the great economic, politic, sociologic and cultural disruptions thus shaping important changes of mentality, perspectives, ideals and priorities. Between dreams, illusions and utopias, each one has a proper look at his surrounding environment, on his everyday life, what it is, what it should be or what it must be. An ideal in which we vanish, a pathological inaccessible, an intimate struggle, a desire of pure and intact feeling, despoiled by another reality. This quest has been translated in sensitive artworks fed by the experiences of artists of different generations and origins, with a proper look at nowadays ideals. This is a kind of introspection on our intimate desire and envy, our personal emotions and sensitivity, find one's place, define one's courage in action or in a lack of resolution. Thus, a parallel is being created between dream and reality, possible and impossible, illusion and disillusion, a duality which is shown by the artists in a permanent ambiguity, playing on double meaning and double representation, where senses and perceptions are voluntarily lost, where formated and non-essential images do not have their place anymore, where hybrid visions anticipate metamorphosis in the only purpose of a forthcoming rebirth.