Presse mappe - Observatoire

GALERIE VINCENZ SALA Paris-­‐BerlinDirector : Helmut BauerGallery creadon’s year: 1986www.vsala.comvincenz.sala@vsala.com52 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth75003 ParisMyriam El Haïk, Cahier de puni-ons IX (polychrome), 2012. Felt-­‐dp on paper, 15 x 21 cm © DRFocus ardst : Myriam El Haïk, born in 1973Prices of the works: from 250 € to 2 500 €Myriam El Haïk (1973), is a French-­‐Moroccan ardst, performer and composer. Her more recent work explores repeddve wridng. Simple signs that vaguely but explicitly refer to Arabic lehers are lined up, right to leg. A fairly rapid scribbling with colored felt-­‐dp pens, inidally on paper in her ‘cahiers de punidon’, then directly on the wall. Monochromadc or superposed in layers of different colors, the lined up signs create rhythmic fields. And broader rhythmic structures emerge between the superposed layers suggesdng some curved form, a piece of cloth, perhaps a flag. Polyrhythmic music, work with basic rhythmic modfs that get out of, and back into, step is not far. As for music the making is important. Whether bend over a table laboriously filling her ‘cahiers’ or upright in front of a wall, the exercise is physical. It engages, informs, and in its obsessive repeddveness eventually forces the body. Myriam El Haïk’s works reflect on the physical disciplines surrounding wridng and the learning of wridng. Perhaps, Myriam El Haïk’s “wridngs” really belong to another stream of her work: performance. It’s the act of wridng, silently, at a given place and a given dme. A memory that is physical more than anything else, a meaning well before the meaning that comes with the lehers of some alphabet. In her recent creadons, she comes to weave bonds between different mediums : drawing, music, dance and video.Presse mappe I Seite 90