Siegfried Contemporary is pleased to announce “Foreign Affair” a three person exhibition

Presenting the works of artists Egle Jauncems, Anne Roger Lacan and Marcel Miracle.

The link that brings together these three artists in “Foreign Affair” is their use of the found object, partially used in the style of “objet trouvé” in the vein of Marcel Duchamp or partially appropriated and recomposed following a rich art historical tradition which dates in the western canon from the early 1900s with the Cubist’s use of scavenged materials.

In different ways the three artists explore the theme of time, space, memory and history.

Artist Marcel Miracle (born in 1957 in Moramanga, Madagascar) taps into the tradition of the use of found materials with his objects trouvés and juxtapositions. For more than thirty years, the artist has been creating small formats, a cosmogony from the heterogeneous objects he finds (broken shells, cuttlefish bones, twigs, rusty capsules, coloured rubber, papers and other objects from his daily life or his Saharan travels), but also from the writing of short stories, poems, annotations, and titles to which he pays particular attention. He draws his references from African shamanism, from the works of Arthur Cravan, Perec, Borgès or Malcolm de Chazal. Marcel Miracle defines his work as an organization of chaos into cosmos, an alchemy of word and sign.

Egle Jauncems’ (born, 1984, Vilnius, Lithuania) visual analysis revolves around found imagery, textual fractions and overheard conversations. Working across painting, sculpture, and assemblage Jauncems works are surrogates for her research interests and roving eye. Her works in “Foreign Affair” are inspired by the discovery of the patterns of a little known Lithuanian cobbler: Paulinas Kaluina (1933 – 2017). Forming the inspiration for Jauncems’ pieces are just a few of the 200 weaving patterns drawn by Paulinas Kaluina, none of which were woven in cloth in his lifetime. For this body of work Egle has revisited old canvases which have been reappropriated and transformed into the patterns and codes inspired by the drawings of Paulinas Kaluina.

ANNE Roger Lacan’s practice has strong connections with Art Brut, the art movement initiated by Jean Dubuffet. She creates sculptures which have strong emotional ties to memory: a perfume, a shell, a lost smile that summon a nostalgic memory. Focused on questions relative to space, time and memory, Roger Lacan’s work is based and built on investigations and silences. Her work expounds a discourse on time tied to reflection, the compositions form a precious balancing act between light matter and memory. Wedding Hands, for example, is an example of the artist’s nostalgic exploration on the passing of time and, as in all her work, a subtle poetic investigation of the fleeting forgotten moments.

Foreign AffairMarcel Miracle, Anne Roger Lacan, Egle Jauncems

Foreign Affair

Marcel Miracle, Anne Roger Lacan,
Egle Jauncems