Eva Jospin's cardboard forests cross the Atlantic
The universe of Eva Jospin (Paris, 48 years old) is different from any other. Entering it means temporarily renouncing reality to let oneself be carried away into a world in which time and space remain suspended. The title of the exhibition, Folies, plays with the viewer from the beginning, taking him to a terrain of ambiguity in which the entire work moves. "This was the name given to garden constructions in the XVIII and XIX centuries that had a purely ornamental or decorative function, without any functional purpose," the artist, daughter of former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, explained to the newspaper. She also appeals to the French root of the word foliage, and it acquires a third meaning when translated into Spanish: madness. “But the connotation here is positive. I like the ambivalence it generates. The imagination of each one transports them to a different place ”, she acknowledges.
