The Song of the Bear - A Soft Symbiosis, France Dubois, Susanne Roewer

Le Chant de l’Ours/The Song of the Bear – a Soft Symbiosis

For the upcoming exhibition, we will combine the work of two artists: France Dubois and Susanne Roewer.
In her photography series entitled Le Chant de l’Ours/The Song of the Bear, France Dubois recounts the mysterious and transcending encounter of two female figures with the forces of nature inside a dark forest, in search of inner harmony and harmony with the environment which generously seems to offer shelter and to reconnect with us and with the universe.
France Dubois says: “I whisper with the spirits of the woods. Time becomes circular. I am her; she is me, and we are the forest. I feel strong, inhabited by multiple lives. We complete a ritual that exists since the dawn of time. It is our secret. We are specks of dust, trees, blood and rain. I feel no pain now. It’s as though I’m inhabited by a wild spirit. Between dog and wolf, the time of mysteries. On the brink of the invisible. Moments where different worlds coincide. I am no longer sad, for I write a tale of eternity.”
Susanne Roewer’s sculptural work entitled Symbiosis combines natural stone (magma from over 2000 years ago) with glass. Glas in the shape of translucent giant rain drops touching ground, organic forms which meet naturally to keep hold of a fascinating moment of an ever repeating but ephemeral natural phenomena.
Susanne Roewer says: “Pieces develop from stories, always triggered by a poetic element of human life and society, absurd or romantic, heroic or stupid, political or stand-alone. My sculptures build on the material knowledge and skills that were gathered since the beginning of mankind, and the human need to give a material expression to immaterial things: power, transcendence, reason, freedom or love”.
This is the first time, that works by France Dubois and Susanne Roewer are being shown together. They intent to take us on a journey through space and time, confronting strengths and fragility, darkness and light, in a perpetual search for a personal and material equilibrium of humankind and nature, or within nature.