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Hortillonnages Amiens 2023
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The statuary – Cécile Beau, 2026

Art & jardins | Hauts-de-France
The statuary – Cécile Beau, 2026
The statuary – Cécile Beau, 2026
Wednesday May 6th, 2026 Zoé Gambier
  • ©Cécile Beau
  • ©Cécile Beau
  • ©Cécile Beau

Wetlands often have the particular characteristic of being devoid of stone, the weight of which causes rocks to be swallowed up by very loose soil. It is by dissociating form from matter that this work proposes to reintroduce the mineral into the Hortillonnages.

The imprint of a rock is obtained by hammering a copper sheet until a form is achieved: a mould. The oxidation of these “copper rocks” yields a varied palette of colours, from bright orange to verdigris by way of a matt brown. “A statuary is a grouping of statues. It is the art of representing human or animal figures in relief”… And why not mineral ones?

This installation proposes to elevate rocks to the status of statues, as subject rather than mere material. The aim is to sculpt and mould their raw forms in order to trace their lines and curves and invite a different gaze upon these bodies through a sideways step. A subject as familiar as stone is thus reproduced in a material, copper, that confers upon it entirely different attributes. These individuals become precious; they emerge from the ground and from the water, distinguished by their colours and their shimmer.

      Thanks to Christophe Chini for his studio and his stones, to Ismael Maudet for his welding work, and to Alice Cotte and 47NORD for their help and advice.

The artist

Cécile Beau

Cécile Beau's work is composed principally of raw materials gathered from natural environments. Her collections consist of minerals, plants and other matter arranged to create or recreate fictional environments, intermediate territories, in-between spaces that are at once strange and familiar. Through her minimal and sensory sculptures and installations, nature becomes a relational "object" with and within which dialogues are woven. Geology, zoology and botany intertwine in plastic propositions that seek to foster a particular attentiveness to our surroundings. Her works arise from an encounter with a territory and a material. She does not work simply on an environment but above all with it; the gesture is created in relation to it, in a state of connivance. Born in 1978, Cécile Beau lives and works between Paris and the Morbihan. She is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Tarbes and subsequently of Marseille, and was part of the 2006–2008 cohort at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing. She is the recipient of the Prix Crédit Agricole at the Salon de Montrouge, the Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo in 2011, and the Prix Roger Pailhas 2015 (Artorama, Marseille). Cécile Beau has taken part in several artist residencies and has shown work in numerous group exhibitions in France and abroad: MoCA Shenzhen (China), the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires, the Palais de Tokyo, Voyages à Nantes, Berlin Atonal, L'art dans les chapelles, the Bhubaneshwar Art Trail (India), Galerie A.M.180 in Prague, among others. Her work has also been presented in solo exhibitions at Galerie 22,48m², the Abbaye de Maubuisson, the Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Galerie Octave Cowbell in Metz, the CAB in Grenoble, and Atelier Vortex in Dijon, among others. Numerous critics have written about her work, including Julie Crenn, Daria de Beauvais, Thomas Schlesser, Julien Bécourt and Leïla Simon.
Voir la fiche artiste — Cécile Beau