Little Lights Jac Leirner
July 2—October 2, 2005
Le Grand Café – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire

Little Lights Jac Leirner

Little Lights, 2005 Series of 4 works (Little Light 1, Little Light 2, Little Light 3 and Little Light 4) Electric cables, bulbs Photo © André Morin

Press Release

Based in Sao Paulo, artist Jac Leirner is one of the most emblematic figures of the Brazilian art scene in the last fifteen years. Most of the time, she creates sophisticated abstract compositions made out of our society of consumption's rejected items. She collects cigarettes packets, plane tickets, envelopes, leaflets, stickers and museum shops' plastic bags, all of which she then turns into artworks, thanks to a patient work of filing and installation. She often...
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