20 October - 12 November 2022, Place du Petit Sablon 11, 1000 Bruxelles
The Grège Gallery presents “Built”, a solo show by the French artist, Amélie Scotta, in the renowned architectural office Donck.Studio in Brussels.
Born in Nantes, Amélie Scotta is graduated in Design and Art from HEAR Strasbourg (2008) and from National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre (2016). Laureate of various Art Prizes (we can mention: Cocof, Carré sur Seine, Ville de Tournai, Canson...), she has also done several artistic residencies (notably at the Fondation Moonens, at the Casa de Velazquez, at the Cité internationale des Arts, at the Villa Empain...) and regularly exhibits in Belgium or abroad.
Her work directly questions our habitat and the resulting urbanism, in other words our life within a neighborhood, a community and more globally a society. Our condition is omnipresent despite the absence of human figure, approached trough a questioning of our lifestyles, of the way we surround ourselves, of the way we crowd in. Working slowly and obsessively, she favors drawing for its material simplicity and infinite richness. Her relationship with architecture, however, leads her more towards sculpture and projects in the public space.
In her latest work, Amélie Scotta focuses her attention on construction elements (tarpaulins, scaffolding, ...), freezing ephemeral installations that are not meant to be looked at and that constitute the traces of an architecture in the making. These structures of lines and draperies are reminiscent of the skeleton or the skin and speak to us of the city as a living organism.
The opening will take place on the 20 of October from 5pm. The final viewing will take place on Saturday 12 of November from 2 to 6 pm. The exhibition will be open every Friday and Saturday from 2 to 5pm and on other days of the week by appointment only.
