Romane Courdacher (b. 1997)
My practice is born out of a fascination for the uncanny and the spectral; focusing on ruins, derelict places, abandoned artefacts and the lingering echoes of lives they once witnessed. Working across sculpture, painting, video and poetry, I explore concepts in relation to climate change, the unwanted and the obsolete through the lens of psychogeography and hauntology.
With the attitude of a gleaner, I gather images, discarded items, building fragments and words, constituting a collection of visual and conceptual references. I combine found objects with 3d printed parts and concrete ornamental elements to build architectural sculptures. By playing with scale and material juxtaposition, I challenge conventional notions of harmony and shift the narratives around discarded artefacts.
Inspired by David Lynch’s dreamscapes and Sci-Fi writers, such as J.G. Ballard and Ursula K. LeGuin, my works unfold a series of ethereal and eerie narratives, blurring the line between feelings of ease and discomfort in the viewers. I use imagery of portals, gates, 18th century garden follies and sepulchres as metaphors for transience and transition; imbuing them with humour and absurdity through a joint use of pastry-like textures and apocalyptic visions.
Evoking notions of dreams, metamorphosis, death, and queerness, my most recent works aim to offer a cathartic experience in response to the uncertain landscape that the climate crisis is shaping.
Les Theatres du Silence, 2022 available to purchase here
PLA, metal, glass, dried plants, flower foam brick, seeds, two moths, fabric and wood
60 x 15 x 15 cm
