Ranging from text and drawing to installation and performance, Aurilian’s work creates perceptive environments that are traversed by disorientation. Amidst a sense of unfolding desire and a descent towards disorder, implied bodies blend with spilt fluids that soil the supports they are in contact with. Without being enunciated, Aurilian’s words are direct, raw, and organic, invading the walls or mixing with slabs and rusty cables adorned with fragile salt crystals, which are both a corrosive mineral and a symbol of purification and, in this way, incarnate the quintessence of oppositions that is at the heart of Aurilian’s work.

 

Inhabited by the bringing together of contradictory forces, Aurilian’s work is the fruit of intertwining paradoxes; fragility gives birth to a language permeated with affect, with a vitality from which emerge sounds, words, and forms that are written, performed, drawn or sculpted. Revendicating the power of vulnerability and affirming the centrality of intimacy, Aurilian powerfully expresses the creative potential of instable moments, where states of emotional weakness enable the imagining of a future in which new ways of existing are made possible, all whilst resisting the normative demands of the outside world.

 

Camille Ramanana-Rahary