The watercolour series “outside, inside, you and me” displays multicoloured ribbons that connect two sides. The carrond, a fusion of half square and half round, is a geometric fetish form by Maud Louvrier Clerc, which makes it a symbol of balance. The carronds become starting and/or return points of enigmatic tentacles, both hearts, lungs and imaginary vegetations that unfold in space and interpenetrate in unexpected ways.
The works were created in the context of the first French confinement of March-April 2020. Maud Louvrier Clerc evokes with this series both the interdependence and the strange paradox of living a free imprisonment. Forced partitioning or dreamy breathing, time of violent crispation or soft relaxation, the period seems to give rise to situations at both extremes and in between them. In the same, the physical and psychic space where deploy incessant and random links that operate between elements (here humans and viruses), parts of a great Everything is questioned here.
The watercolour series “outside, inside, you and me” Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film “Rear Window” where an injured man observes his neighbours and from his own confinement experience with his spouse, the artist unfolds her fetish balance motif, the carrond, which it turns into a window. Interior windows of human psyches or exterior windows of neighbouring apartments, «outside, inside, you and me» insists on the abundant dialogues during this period. The series evokes both the silent cries of loneliness of some citizens, as well as the wonderful journey of thoughts to worlds according to others, so much the movements of the tight bodies, which suffocate, sometimes clash in violence, the happy communion movements taking place every evening on the balcony. The colors merge, like mixed feelings or disturbing experiences of the contagion of consciences.
Between distanced observation and therapeutic self-portrait, the works embody this duality between external calm and inner cry, this ability to control, conducive to life in society or as a couple, such as this vital lightness or the art of expressing what is living inside us through a dance, that of the brush of a hand, of a body inhabited by its consciousness of being part of an ecosystem.
