Caty OLIVE

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Born in 1967 Graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Paris in 1991

"De quoi tenir jusqu'a l'ombre"/ 2013/ Roubaix, France. Light design, (Chritian Rizzo Choreographer)
"Etudes de fluides,projet Tator" / 2013/Galerie Tator LYON, France.(Personal exhibition.)
"Thanhauser"/2012/Opera de Toulouse, France. Light design, (Christian Rizzo Director)
"Maison Metropole"de Jean Prouve / 2012/Tourcoing, France. Light design (J.Charles Huet architecte)
"Diacaustiques des esprits"/ 2011/Fondation Serralves/Porto, Portugal, (personal exhibition.)

Because after beeing graduated as an scenographer, I've chosen to work with light, I 'm used to move throught various fields of activities, like performing art architecture, and visual art .
My ambition is to make the wave motion of light obvious, deliberatly through an artificial device. It is also to study its variations, and at the same time to point at the active aspect of the spectator' eye. Moreover, my work looks at the opposition between the frailty of anapparition and the brutality of a mechanism. We often talk about the 'immaterial' quality of light. But we can question this preconceivedfeature... anyway light has a lot to do with the notion of shape and what is shapeless, it is quite important to me at least.
The very word 'study' was chosen on purpose : it consists in asserting the observation of the behaviour of the appearing light phenomena, thanks to the speed they go through, just like fluids. A tiny variation of speed creates infinite modulations of the shapes and of the extension within the space. I have been using the stationary waves for a long time in my work.