
Eva Ayache Vanderhorst
Constellation II
Project Info
- 💙 Café des Glaces
- 💚 All Stars
- 🖤 Eva Ayache Vanderhorst
- 💜 Juliette Hage
- 💛 Café des Glaces
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Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions
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Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions

Vanderhorst, Constellations II, 2024-2025, metal, magnet, chains, needle, nail, paints - oil, pigments, acrylic on linen sheets, variable dimensions
We could begin by saying that Eva Ayache-Vanderhorst’s proposal is an installation where metal and
painting merge and absorb one another in a miscible blend, where the artist’s gesture allows the two
techniques to interpenetrate and reciprocally intertwine. Constellations 2 imposes a spectral presence:
the floating bodies of the paintings double and fragment within the large mirrors of the Café des
Glaces, evoking a kind of panoptic and omniscient power. The central metallic sculpture, a penetrable
zone positioned at the threshold between outside and inside, asserts itself as an ambiguous territory
where everything remains to be thought through under the looming threat of hanging
pendulums—though disarmed—within a relation to time held in suspension by the muffled force of
gravity. Thus, the exhibition space asserts itself as a circulatory territory where the viewer is invited to
observe frontally, but also to discover through the reverse and through reflection these presences with
incised eyes, merging with the metal structure.
One must also mention the artist’s obsessive relationship with the painted subject, which
recurs repeatedly throughout her work. The faces represented by Eva Ayache-Vanderhorst appear on
the canvas and imprint themselves on pre-found textile fibers: bedsheets still bearing the traces of
others, inhabited by irregularities that endow them with a kind of historicity. The artist conjures up
genderless, identity-less faces and bodies—bodies whose traces cannot be positioned on any map nor
in any sky, simply because they do not belong to anything locatable, except perhaps to the frontier
itself, a third, liminal space: floating, unanchored, between what appears and what vanishes. Though
these vaporous bodies inscribe themselves within a genealogy of forms developed by Eva Ayache-
Vanderhorst, they seem extracted from History, as if removed from reality and from all forms of
temporality, as if born “in the placeless place of their dreams.” 1
An enigmatic space, intimate and yet permeable, Constellations 2 refers us to astral
geographies and invites us to reflect on our connections, our correspondences, on the echoes that may
reside in the thickness of our narratives, in the density of our pasts, and in the memory of our bodies,
on the passing of time and its silences, as a way to think from the interstice, the threshold, beyond
what confines us.
Juliette Hage