Forlane 6 studio

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 Forlane 6 Studio is composed by a duo. Mathieu Goussin was born in 1985, he studied at the National School of Merchant Navy in Marseille and has worked many years in the merchant navy industry before engaging with a visual art practice. He is a self-taught artist. Hortense Le Calvez was born in 1988, she studied at the Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam and graduated in 2010 from a BA at Wimbledon College of Art of London. She is also a scuba diving instructor. They both live and work on their 40 years old sailing boat, named Forlane 6, currently based in the Aegean Sea.

 

 

Statement

 

 Water is the tool that allows us to transform ordinary objects inside a transitory and suspended space. When immersed in this element, materials can be displaced using their buoyancy, currents or air pressure. The movements of the sculptures participate to its metamorphose and recalls natural qualities.

 Our obsession with the underwater world informs these projects. To transform a stable form into a malleable and unpredictable one it becomes necessary for it to be submerged. At the intersection of different mediums, these works are made to leave room for the unexpected. Specific situations are created where the inanimate can become alive. It is through these slow motions that ordinary materials become uncanny and poetic.

 The depths of the sea are historically seen as a place of disappearance and oblivion. However this singular and hostile space is strongly influenced by human activity, and will certainly have an increasingly large impact upon our civilization in the fields of science and energy resources.

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All images and texts 'courtesy of the artists.