“Garden Memories Revived” Clara Feder Solo Exhibition “重拾芳菲忆” — Clara Feder 个展

“Garden Memories Revived” — Clara Feder Solo Exhibition

Exhibition Date: 4 March – 6 April, 2017

Parisian artist Clara Feder’s second Solo show“Garden Memories Revived ” in Shanghai, in collaboration with Le Jardin Retrouvé French Perfume House is an immersive and synesthetic series of installations where the viewer uses their sight, touch, hearing and olfaction as tools to explore Memory.

Olfaction, as the first and the most archaic sense of all, is an incredible memory opener. It works on a subliminal level, much as art does. Long forgotten memories of our childhood, or evocations of a distant past that we never witnessed, can be triggered by fragrances.

This reflection leads the artist to the making of this multi-sensory artwork, inviting and inspiring the viewer to live an experience, in a space that would provide both protection and wonder, much like a garden itself.

After Clara Feder’s first successful Shanghai’s solo show “Light travelers”, works inspired by the dazzling experience of modern metropolises such as Shanghai in 2014,  these visuals entitled Garden Travelers, are a new body of digital collages which mesh together images of natural and urban environments.

In this new exhibition, Clara Feder has engulfed these hard-edged and sterile environments in wildness and life, alongside with a memory quality. These plants hues contaminate the city with the energy and the will of the natural world.

“重拾芳菲忆” — Clara Feder 个展

2017年3月 4日– 4月6日

巴黎艺术家Clara Feder携手法国香水之家Le Jardin Retrouvé ，以“重拾芳菲忆”为主题，举办了她在上海的第二次个展。这是一场让观者身临其境于花园中并结合各种身体感官去体验的系列装置作品的展览。观者可以通过视觉、嗅觉，听觉以及触觉开启探索记忆的大门。

嗅觉，作为人类最主要的感官之一，是种能唤醒记忆的特殊工具。它作用于人类的潜意识中，如同艺术所能带给我们的奇妙感受一般。它能唤起我们渐已忘却的童年回忆，抑或重现一段往昔时光。这一切都可以通过某种香味来唤回。因此，艺术家此次的艺术作品结合了多种感官的体验，邀请并鼓舞观者重返大自然的怀抱，去徘徊去遐想。

继2014年Clara Feder在上海成功举办的首次个展“光之旅行者”之后，本次展览的灵感来自于像上海这座繁华大都市中令人眼花缭乱的现代生活。这些视觉呈现作为 Clara Feder的“花园旅行者”系列，旨在创作将大自然和现代都市环境融合而成的数字图像作品。

这次展览的摄影作品中，Clara Feder用花草削弱了城市坚硬的棱角使其融入大自然中，并通过身体中的各种感官触发着我们的记忆。这些植物的色彩给现代都市染上了自然界的能量和意志。