The Villa Datris Foundation
Collection

The exhibition Purs objets de style presents some fifty works that question the boundary between art and design, but also between function and aesthetics. The objects presented are to be seen as works of art that sublimate our everyday lives. The exhibition reflects a dynamic interdisciplinary approach, taking a look at our society through the permanence or recurrence of forms and uses. With this exhibition, Polaris Centre d'art brings together works by major artists such as Philippe Parreno, Sol Lewitt and Philippe Ramette, with a selection of works by five young European artists.

You can discover Et puis s'en vont, from the Consolations series by Nathalie Elemento. This artist from the Villa Datris Foundation Collection approaches the space of the object as one would approach the interior space of an individual, traversed by his or her internal movements and mental postures. It links a physical space to a psychic state. Like a simple cardboard box, made of combinations of volumes and perforated with dotted lines resembling virtual seams, her work houses voids and corners where the reflection of a color is diffused, as if to narrate their interiorities and diffract their intimate environments.