Votos, 2019. © Lia Villevieille
Votos
- Vol. 5, no. 1
- 2020
- 05/04/2021
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An ex-voto is a votive offering to invisible forces, mainly given in fulfilment of a vow after being healed. It often takes form in the mold of the wounded member, a print that has been directly in contact with the body of the helped. This cyanotype was made with a radiography of my sick lungs, and plants I found dead in an exploited forest. In this photograph, I link the wounded wilderness – the French call forests “Earth lungs” – with my wounded lungs. Since Magic involves using analogies to weave links between a representation and its object in order to affect it, what kind of magic system is invoked when we summon action with contact prints? I tied this photograph to the terrible arsons devastating Amazonia, and more recently Australia, echoing with the disastrous impacts of global changes on the fragile balance of Earth life.
Lia Villevieille is a young multidisciplinary artist born in the South of France. Her creative work is linked to her occult praxis, where intuition is used to heal and reclaim neglected obscurity. She has a contemporary approach to rural traditions and superstitious beliefs. Her work is about how archetypes, tales, and other mythic representations set our perception of the world, and so can transform reality. As a disciple of Bachelard’s thinking on material imagination, she pays attention to the dependance between human cognitive process, phenomenology, and cosmogonic musing. With a Master’s degree in Art & Philosophy, she now explores ceramic sculpture, watercolor paintings, engraving, and installations. She also works as a publisher in the women artists’ collective Sororae.
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Since Magic involves using analogies to weave links between a representation and its object in order to affect it, what kind of magic system is invoked when we summon action with contact prints?
- Cover photo: Voto, 2019. © Lia Villevieille
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