PARIS.- The Galerie Jaeger Bucher is exhibiting, in its Marais Rive Droite space, the work of artist Evi Keller, entitled «Matière - Lumière», who is presenting her solo show from the 31st of May until the 27th of September 2015 (please note that the gallery will be closed during August).

After the original presentation of «Matière - Lumière» at the most recent Nuit Blanche, and the ensuing exhibition as part of the YIA Art Fair in the Saint Denys du Saint Sacrement church, this exhibition embodies the initiatory journey of the artist and marks the presentation to the world of this new form of artistic expression.

A projection room is dedicated to showing the audiovisual work «Matière - Lumière [Towards the light - silent transformations]», the veritable cradle of «Matière - Lumière», at 7 rue de Saintonge. Her photographic imprints, bearing witness to a transformation process, crystallise the experiences of life and embody them in spaces of transition, outside the simple markers of the real. The «Matière - Lumière» experience continues with installations at 5 rue de Saintonge. The passage from one to the other unites the real and the imaginary, the exterior and interior worlds, materiality and spirituality in an experience outside of space and time, leading from absolute darkness towards the light.

The complexity of «Matière - Lumière», having neither references nor affiliations, is part of its great richness. There is no affiliation to a «defined» artistic current, nor reference to any particular means of expression. It’s about a fusion of different means of expression, the crystallisation of artistic approaches such as photography, painting, sculpture and audio-visual work.

On the occasion of its 90th anniversary, the Gallery is opening up to photography, audio-visual creation and a new artistic form.

In her transition spaces Evi Keller reveals, through an alchemic principle, a world of elements in the process of creation, in which light amplifies and vibrates, transfiguring the lived experience.

«Matière - Lumière» [Light - Matter] crystallises artistic approaches like photography, painting, sculpture and audiovisual work, elucidating, among other things, their fusion and their relationship with light. Multiple and changing works, musical scores interpreted in light, like the veils floating without frames, liberating themselves from the space and their environment of creation. Transmuted into healing veils, dressings covering wounds and protecting abstract forms, they are mysteries of a magical, living matter that varies and refines itself into changing mineral vegetal, animal and human forms, giving birth to explosive, volcanic landscapes from a far-off and mysterious world.

Observing her work is to set off on a voyage between the interior and exterior, between the infinitely small and infinitely large. It is to live in a world in which light develops as it crosses multiple layers of reflective surfaces, to the point of abstraction that concentrates and distills all lived experience, finding balance in disequilibrium. It’s also to receive light manifested by its various forms in a present that includes all past and all future… Finally, it is to see it reflected, refracted by opaque, translucent worlds, dematerialising space and revealing to us that which lies deepest within ourselves.

A sonic and visual poem, «Matière - Lumière» rises vertiginously into a space where day overcomes long night and where light, born softly from silence, liberates the soul in transparency, shattering the mirror.

The audio-visual work «Matière - Lumière [Towards the light - silent transformations]» connects us to the vibrations of the night, a symbol of the invisible, in a mysterious universe that unveils itself by the rays of a submerged sun, emissary of far-off galaxies. Solid state, liquid state, both… me, sky, earth, finding vital breath in the lines that link them to light, and transform them to the rhythm of a silence whose melody makes itself heard in the world of senses. The fragmentation of movement gives rise to abstract compositions which remove all real meaning from them and give them a poetic and spiritual dimension. Emanating light is limited neither by forms nor by restricted spaces. The work evolves through the artist’s gaze — in the materialisation of light and the transformation of forms, other vibrations are born. It captures forms animated by rhythmic and luminous waves, enters their life, their movement and invites us to enter a world of meditation. It is the sonic vibration and the incarnation of a moment of eternity, a work that lives in the moment, that resounds deep down inside us. It’s an encounter with the form and nature of «things», of the visible and the invisible, the manifest and the mystery.

Born in 1968 in Bad Kissingen, Germany, Evi Keller studied History of Art at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In 1993 she graduated from the Munich Academy of Photography and Graphic Design. The artist has lived in Paris since 1994, working as a photographer and graphic designer in a a creative agency while developing her own work in the visual arts. Since 2000, Evi Keller has concentrated exclusively on her art, working regularly with dancers and contemporary musicians.