MARIE-LUCE NADAL

Echo is an artwork that embodies the harvesting and manifestation of pure cloud essence. This essence is extracted by Marie-Luce Nadal, an artist passionate about capturing natural phenomena. Through regular practice, she collects this essence and redistributes it in enclosed environments, giving rise to a series of works called “Eoloriums.” The artwork Echo, presented here, is a captivating depiction of the collection of soil and a cloud, both harvested in Los Angeles in 2023.

This evolving sculpture contains a captive cloud in perpetual motion Under the watchful eye of the overhanging machine, the cloud appears and disappears, following an orchestrated movement. The contained atmosphere oxidizes, clouds, or clears, influenced by its surroundings.

The term “Eolorium” is a neologism coined by the artist, combining “Aeolus,” the god of winds in Greek mythology, with the Latin suffix “arium.” This sculpture, reminiscent of a cloud aquarium, houses a captive fragment of land—a microcosm subject to the random will of air masses condensing into wisps. Like an archivist, Marie-Luce Nadal collects the ephemeral to preserve it from the imprint of time.