Amandine LASA

My work begins with a period of attentive listening; I set down my tools and allow questions to surface.
What is matter? What constitutes its unity?
Through drawing—point by point—the repetition of gestures and the hammering of rhythm open a new space.

A space for drawing and reflection, where I enjoy exploring notions of mass and density, erosion and dispersion.
The point, as the elementary unit of my drawing, becomes a play of solids and voids, within which densities vary until solid masses disperse.
The concept of unity here is fluid, evoking a fragility imbued with virtuality.
Matter is not represented as something continuous but rather as discrete (in the mathematical sense), alternative, granular.

Exploring the territory during my artistic residencies leads me to a cartographic relationship with the terrain, aiming to grasp its forms and movements on a geological timescale.
On crumpled paper, I seek, point by point, to distinguish the shaded from the sunlit slopes.

A simple pebble collected along the path is rearranged, juxtaposed.
I initiate a writing game, the beginnings of a language that connects linguistics and the mineral, which becomes a phoneme.

In the word "Roca," I hear the stone that rolls and fractures...
The root that, tracing through the soil, also draws from it the roots of language, through successive geological strata, bearing witness to the movements at work beneath our feet.