Louise Déry

Louise Déry: Facing The Night

Artists have always turned their eyes to the sky, and many of them today are following in this grand romantic tradition, standing as explorers with their heads raised towards outer space, observing its immensity and evoking its boundlessness while at the same revealing its poetry, mystery, and magic.

In a world where the sky is being sold by the piece to meet the demands of the communication industry, and in which formidable powers are busy hiding information or spying on the transmitted signals, artists will look at the night to reveal and to shape the invisible in its multiple dimensions: exploration of the infinite, contemplation of its intangible power, and consideration of its fragility. They will also contribute towards reinventing the geography of the night, as well as reminding us of the ambivalence of our relation with the night-world: a world of bright stars as much as black holes, of dreams as much as fear, of survival as much as apocalypse, of heaviness and weightlessness.

The sky begins level with the surface of the earth. It makes visible the alternation between day and night. As “night-walkers,” we enter into the vertigo of the nocturnal sky.