Eva Taulois

Eva Taulois’s interventions are made under the auspices of color, deployed in various modes and places, and of the knowing feint. The colors are by turns intrusive, over-exposed and discreet, according to the marker of her unique practice – playing with the metamorphosis of everyday objects, spaces and situations, as a throwback to the artist’s design studies.

At Hôpital La Grave, she adjusts the pictorial act to the scale of the building, taking on an immense glass façade and adjacent walkway, two recent but stale pieces of architecture that contrast with the historical building and offer surfaces that allows for a multiplication of points of view. The aim is to paint, reproduce, enlarge and transpose, all actions going from body to architecture, from brushstroke to monumental, from studio to public space, from acrylic to pasted synthetic surface. Stuck to the glass are the enlargements of three pictures painted in the studio, with broad, edgy and bright touches, open to people’s gaze and interpretation, with the encouragement of the title, Toutes les fenêtres sont ouvertes (All the windows are open). The process of displacement and delegation, a convention in applied arts, is revisited and reappropriated here.

And, more discreetly, between all-over monochromatic blocks and decorative backgrounds, sections of painted wall are disseminated in different exhibition spaces, according to the choices and urges of the festival team. A doubly delegated process, then, with the only stipulation being a range of six colors selected in advance by the artist.

With the support of Groupe Pierre Fabre and Hôpitaux de Toulouse