Stephanie Dulout writes in Acumen magazine on Marie-Luce Nadal's exhibition Guerre Celeste in the Project Room.
From Cloud to Cloud
As a visual artist and researcher, Marie-Luce Nadal hunts and enshrines clouds. The daughter of a long line of Catalan winegrowers, she draws her inspiration from the ancestral tradition of "cloud hunters" firing rockets into the sky to protect harvests from hail. Armed with a crossbow and ammunition made from sulphur, she makes the clouds cry, during the blue hour, that suspended moment at dusk when the birds stop singing. Documented in photos and videos, these poetic performances take place after a fencing duel. These are all rituals that mark the practice on the borderline between art and science of the artist-engineer who, since her first cloud-capturing machine (created in 2015), has been ingeniously cultivating the impalpable and manipulating the atmosphere.
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