C’est peut-être ce que vous croyez, joint work with Sabrina Kenifra, 2016-2017, 500cmx 500cmx 600cm, organza, acrylic paint .
The installation C’est peut-être ce que vous croyez, is the result of the meeting between Vinn Feng, young Chinese artist and Sabrina Kenifra, from Aubagne, in the South of France. If Vinn works often with space, Sabrina represents it in her paintings. It’s after a kabuki show they have seen together in Tokyo, that they decided to collaborate for the Chambord exhibition. In a hara-kiri scene, both of them are caught by the purple color of the actor’s kimonos, which reminds Vinn one of her favorite book If there is purple, someone gonna die, by Patti Bellantoni. The allegory, of which signification is often invisible for a non-informed public, is common to kabuki, through ceremonials and rituals, and Chambord castle architecture’s, full of symbols. From those elements, artists think about an installation made of fabric, where the spectator can get lost and decode what they encoded. Panels of this light fabric are spray painted by Sabrina, in a color close to the « kabuki’s purple » and using the arch shape, that she already uses in her paintings, making the link with the architecture of the castle. They are combined by a transparency interplay to the abstract shape drew by Vinn, after images she shot during her wanders in the monument, with her 2D-3D process. She hand-sewed afterwards. The lighting display reminds the violet they liked too. Using references, more or less convoluted, to their common experiences in Tokyo and Chambord, the confrontation between the off-the-wall and poetic vision of Vinn Feng and the more direct and structured approach of Sabrina Kenifra, resulted an very intriguing installation.