Solo exhibition by Natacha Nisic
Natacha Nisic’s work straddles the boundary between visual arts and cinema (which she studied in Berlin). She offers an offbeat vision of image and movement in which elements of reality, taken out of context, are stripped of their narrative references and revealed for what they are. Natacha Nisic lived in Berlin after the fall of the Wall, when all traces of East Germany were to be erased by erecting new buildings on sites emblematic of German history (Potsdamer Platz, for example). This moment gave rise to a feeling of ‘disappointment’ in Natacha Nisic regarding the existence of what she herself describes as ‘new places of possibility,’ ‘new parcels of city or invention.’ This search for a new life continued during a short stay in Fukuoka, Japan, when a huge green neon sign, VIVRE, towering atop a building, turned out to be nothing more than an advertising sign for a chain of shops: you can buy everything at VIVRE… As part of her first solo exhibition in a French institution, Natacha Nisic will occupy the architecture of Le Plateau as a ‘house’: a space to be explored, where visitors can engage with the works and perceive the ordinary in a different way. Nourished by the reality that surrounds her, this artist’s work offers a ‘reframing of reality.’ Natacha Nisic sees her presence as ‘an attempt to define a time, a context, so that any smooth vision of the world is now impossible.’
– Curator: Eric Corne
