
Amélie Bouvier
Magnetic Enlightenment #2, 2017
Indian ink and pencil on paper
100 x 70 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
Copyright The Artist & Harlan Levey Projects
In Amélie Bouvier's series of drawings “Magnetic Enlightenment”, the subject is simultaneously constructed and deconstructed; the multiple shapes splayed across the paper are in fact various shadows from the same...
In Amélie Bouvier's series of drawings “Magnetic Enlightenment”, the subject is simultaneously constructed and deconstructed; the multiple shapes splayed across the paper are in fact various shadows from the same source: a piece of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Adopting strategies that mimic mechanical repetitions, Bouvier evokes different possible narratives around the same object or story, suggesting the existence of moments in science where error is inevitable and often invisible.