Foreign Affair: Egle Jauncems, Anne Roger Lacan and Marcel Miracle - Saanen, Switzerland

Siegfried Contemporary is pleased to announce “Foreign Affair” a three person exhibition presenting the works of artists Egle Jauncems, Anne Roger Lacan and Marcel Miracle.

The link that brings together the three artists in “Foreign Affair” is their use of the found object, partially used in the style of “objet trouvé” in the vein of Marcel Duchamp or  partially appropriated and recomposed following a rich art historical tradition which dates in the western canon from the early 1900s with the Cubist’s use of scavenged materials.

The three artists are brought together here with the title Foreign Affair (inspired by the seminal Mike Oldfield composition) to underline their very distinct backgrounds and histories that intersect here with their common exploration of the theme of time, space, memory and history.

Artist Marcel Miracle (born in 1957 in Moramanga, Madagascar, lives in Switzerland and Tunisia) taps into the tradition of the use of found materials with his objects trouvés and juxtapositions.. For more than thirty years, the artist has been creating small formats, a cosmogony from the heterogeneous objects he finds (broken shells, cuttlefish bones, twigs, rusty capsules, colored rubber, papers and other objects from his daily life or his Saharan travels), but also from the writing of short stories, poems, annotations, and titles to which he pays particular attention. He draws his references from African shamanism, from the works of Arthur Cravan, Perec, Borgès or Malcolm de Chazal. Marcel Miracle defines his work as an organization of chaos into cosmos, an alchemy of word and sign.

Egle Jauncems’ (born, 1984, Vilnius, Lithuania, lives in London) visual analysis revolves around found imagery, textual fractions and overheard conversations. Working across painting, sculpture, and assemblage Jauncems works are surrogates for her research interests and roving eye.Her works in “Foreign Affair” are inspired by the Lithuanian cobbler and nighttime pattern designer Paulinas Kaulinas (1933-2017), whose book of over two hundred never-realised weaving patterns Loving thy mother through the patterns of cloth marked the starting point of her process. For this body of work Egle has revisited old canvases which have been reappropriated and transformed into the patterns and codes inspired by the drawings of Paulinas Kaluina.

Anne Roger Lacan’s (Born and living in France) practice has strong connections with Art Brut, the art movement initiated by Jean Dubuffet. She creates sculptures which have strong emotional ties to memory. Focused on questions relative to space and time, Roger Lacan’s work is based and built on investigations and silences. Her work expounds a discourse on time tied to reflection, her compositions form a precious balancing act between matter and memory.  A composition such as Wedding Hands is an example of the artist’s exploration on the passing of time and, as in all her works, there is a subtle poetic investigation of the fleeting forgotten moments.

Works in the exhibition