Entre deux vertiges, Gloria Friedmann

The artist Gloria Friedmann at Transfo – Emmaüs Solidarité for the exhibition Entre deux vertiges.

“It is both a warning and an observation. ” Vigilance runs through the work of Gloria Friedmann.

Made from earth, plaster, metal, feathers or electrical cables, her composite sculptures have long evoked the human figure in all its complexity and question our existence in the world.

A stunned observer of a shattering present, she unfolds at Transfo a trail of works like a state of mind, an anxious gaze cast on our humanity and its future in a threatened environment.

This manifesto exhibition is curated by Yvon Le Mignan, coordinator of the Emmaüs Solidarité cultural centre. It is accompanied by a booklet containing a text by art critic Philippe Dagen, which the artist has also illustrated.

It is presented by a team of volunteers and people supported by the association, who invite you to exchange “face to face with vertigo”. Private view on Thursday 24 September, from 6pm to 9pm. Exhibition from Friday 25 September to Saturday 21 November, during opening hours.

About the artist: Born in 1950 in Kronach, Germany. Lives and works in Aignay-le-Duc, France. Gloria Friedmann left Germany for France in 1977.

Self-taught and primarily a sculptor, this prolific artist brings an experimental energy to practices as varied as painting, installation, photography, performance and video.

The deliberately protean character and caustic spirit of her approach combine gravity and frivolity, in a language she cultivates in a manner that is both scholarly and droll.

Taking hold of a historic genre, landscape, which contemporary sculpture had abandoned, she became known in the early 1980s for installations and performances focused on nature, of which she considers herself a “part”.