Calypso, installation - 540 x 250 x 120 cm, 2014. Lifejackets
A glassbox, an artwork : Calypso. Cathy Weyders burden and loaded suspension is displayed in Les Brasseurs Young Artist window.
Setting up for an expected wreck while trying to resist the storm with a lifejackets mesh knitting a lifeboat, Calypso is submerging here stirring like a warning light on a turbulent sea, standing freeze as an orange ethnological artefact behind the museum glass.
Modeling the object with a bore piece of irony, giving it an individual though collective amplitude, Cathy Weyders asserts her image as a parade - and a parry - to the coming wave. She continues the characteristic aesthetics of survival she's developing as a signature through the symbolic and singular aspects of that buoy. With and without Ulysses.
Jérôme Mayer
