Nathalie Croiset

“A Ballet of Resin. When we evoke sculpture, we naturally think of the whiteness of stone or the greenish colour of bronze. Here, it’s all about light and colour. The resin, coloured and translucent, transfigures the immobile and gives it life, as a prism would. The sun, for example, shines with a summery orange-yellow colour that delights the eyes and the heart. To the question “is sculpture your passion?” asked by someone at the opening of the exhibition, Natalie Croiset had an answer that might at first sight seem irrelevant: ‘my first passion is dance’. And if you look closely, some of the sculptures on display did indeed undoubtedly evoke dance. The “waltz” of course, but also the “pagan ave Maria” where a slender sylph, body stretched out on half-points, looks up at the sky in a prayerful movement. Or again this invitation to “travel”, a non-figurative work where long and undulating textures seem to show us a path, a road to somewhere else. “What words sometimes struggle to say often comes naturally out of the sculptor’s hands.” (Le Plessis-Info, February 1999)