GUILLAUME BARTH
Elina 2015-2025, the promise to the Aymaras

Opening April 26, 2025 from 3 pm to 7 pm

From April 26 to June 28, 2025
Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, 5 rue de Saintonge, 75003, Paris

Elina has taken the form of a concrete metaphysical object, as this work speaks to us about the way life can be recreated within a static world.
It addresses self-awareness, movement, regeneration, and healing—a fertilization in fluidity at the heart of an unlivable reality.This work, shaped like the genesis of the first primordial egg cell (the zygote) developing within an arid world, speaks to us of an intimate and delicate process of re-creating the world—and thus oneself—along with the effort required for any transformation, which is the very source of the reality shift we all subjectively experience.
Elina speaks to us about adaptation; it is an invitation to meditation, introspection, and active contemplation in order to embrace life. Guillaume Barth offers us a concrete and poetic model of functioning by recreating and reinventing his reality within the phenomenal world. He embarks on a new beginning, using this living path of rotation to show us that it is possible to create an exponential generator of consciousness, of self, and of the world, through an undeniable act of generosity. He did not turn into a pillar of salt—his personal alchemy led him to a transformation of state, for life itself is nothing but constant change. He is in sync with our time.
Philosophy must rethink the infinite, while art has long allowed itself to do so. Science is slowly opening up to the irrational, to what is unacceptable within our dualistic Western culture: the understanding that the self and the world are not separate, that we actively create our reality—undoubtedly, simply by thinking it, by desiring it, through our belief systems. And all the tangible evidence of the correspondence between mind and matter is there to invite us to experience these realizations firsthand.
But artists like Guillaume create at the heart of these variables, in an empirical and symbolic manner—not abstract, but highly effective—by bringing to life a resonant poem that speaks of creation and self-realization, something far too rare not to be highlighted.
It is no surprise that this image-manifestation, shaped like an ∞ turned upright into an 8, returns to emptiness before embarking on its embryogenic journey—growing, expanding, and inspiring everything around it.

Joachim Montessuis
Excerpt from the introduction text of the publication Elina, October 2018.