Haletant et éclatant

Overview

"Haletant et éclatant" is a dialogue between the many aspects of Landau's multidisciplinary practice where her experimental, vibrant gestures in her works on paper and plaster sculptures meet the precise but organic craftsmanship the artist developed in her series ‘Salt works’.

From 2004 the artist begins her series Salt Years. In the desert landscape of the Dead Sea, she plunges various inanimate objects in the waters whose salinity crystallise them. She explores this process with an array of objects such as Shoes (Adam, 2018; Unborn, 2016), coats, dresses but also nooses, crutches and musical instruments (Flute 3, 2020; Wave, 2020). Hints at the absence of a person to whom they belong while becoming living beings. Transformed by the salt which changes their color to a glimmering white and thickens their surfaces with layers of salt, the objects lose all relation to their original purpose and become symbols of this loss.