Image Credit: Nicole Peyrafitte, KA Cardinal (2020). Courtesy of the artist.
I, the red metal rat practice balance on breaking news & extended edges, apprehend time & trust creative uncertainties. In the man-made present red rat must reclaim her temporalities. In the thriving ruins the mycorrhizal symbioses are forcing stories in disturbance & contamination— are we still longing for salvation? Red rat would rather contemplate response-ability becoming with companion species embracing a dimension of re-volution Gaia is sui generis & secular soul searching? soil searching! Induced time wilted hope on thin crust of life immanent reality can blossom thru composted myths for the story to change rat knows to recalibrate expectations.
Nicole Peyrafitte is a Gasco-American multidisciplinary artist born in 1960. Recent presentations include: The 11 Women of Spirit at Salon Zürcher, New York City; the 2017 multi-tier exhibition & live performance Peyrafitte / Joris: Domopoetic Works at Simoncini Gallery, Luxembourg, featuring her longtime collaboration with poet & translator Pierre Joris. Gallery Simoncini will host a second multi-tier installment in February 2021, including action painting & cooking. In 2018 she wrote & directed Things Fall Where They Lie, a documentary feature film starring Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo. Recent publications include: Carnet 1 & 2 (RedfoxPress Ireland, 2018), Landsc0pes (2018) & Bi Valve: Vulvic Space/Vulvic Knowledge (2016) (Plaine Page). Peyrafitte’s Action Paintings have been performed in a range of international venues such as CCA Glasgow, Scotland; ENSA Limoges, France; Musée Soulage Rodez, France; Festival Voix de La Méditerranée, Sète, France; Jardin des Cinq Sens et des Formes Premières, Aix en Provence, France; Encuentro Internacional, Durango, Mexico; Casino de Luchon, France; &, in the USA, at The Poetry Project, N.Y.C; Ming Studios Contemporary Art Center, Boise, Idaho; San Francisco State University; The Lace Mill, Kingston, NY, to name a few. In the creation of these action paintings she collaborated with renowned international musicians such as Michael Bisio, Connie Crothers, Devin Waldman, Holland Hopson, Steve Swell, and Jason Kao Hwang.
