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Kassoumail, a nickname that says a lot !
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Kassoumail is the name that Jocelyne Pétiard
chose long ago, during a trip to Casamance that marked her, and
that she uses to sign her work. Kassoumail is the word for "welcome"
among the Diola people, a fiercely indepentend people and very attached
to their ancestors. |
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And it is this indemendence of mind, a big distance
from an art school, the fierce side, found in the art that she practices,
close to the Art Brut so dear to à Dubuffet. Because what matters
in Jocelyne's productions, whatever the medium and techniques used,
it is her artistic approach, the need to confront the matter, to
extract from herself the emotions that animate her (so overwhelming
at times!) in a process that could be described as cathartic. The
aesthetic and technical worries came into play afterwords and even
now they ar not a priority. Demanding with herself, sometimes too
modest, she has produced numerous and a wide variety of works, sometimes
abandoned in the back of the studio, even abused, and discoved with
delight by her friends passing by… |
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Because in this production, sometimes abundant
and guided byt emotion, there are real pearls that may arise, works
of incredible patiences and attention to detail, when it comes to
time paper collages for example, or on the contrary inspired brush
strokes and applied with energy on th canvas, with a keen sense
of the language of colors. It is always the force that emanates
from her works in their apparent diversity. Life in all of its aspects,
expressed with a certain "authority" which seems to overtake
it's author, as well as an original creative impulse, in the nobel
sense of the word, we understand! There is a form of magic in her
productions, which in some ways remindes us of the inspired shamans,
when we surprise ourselves voyaging far in time and space while
looking at them. |
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Michèle Protin October 2009 |
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