Installations
November 2023
Traits d'union
Solo exhibition
Odradek, Brussels, Belgium
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Des champs des puits project: drawings, textiles
Le lieu qui te revêt project: drawings
Vestiges project: drawings, paintings
Allure implacable d'un murmure, hand-painted cotton thread crocheted, 10 × 430 cm, 2019
For the solo exhibition Traits d'union at Odradek, I pursue the reflection on painting, language, and space, which started from the Annunciations of Fra Angelico in the Le lieu qui te revêt project and on the connections between language, drawing and textile in the Des Champs des puits project.
Traits d'union associates works created by concentrated and meticulous gestures, through techniques such as collage or hand sewing, which link posture to breath.
My works are constructed with fragments of material, pieces of rice paper drawn, painted and sewn by hand for the paintings and morsels of impressions of Annunciations and of press photographs, on paper, for the collages. Leftovers are placed on the paper, vestiges of images leading our gaze towards a dispersed, contemporary, and distant elsewhere.
Gyoji is a Japanese term for uninterrupted practice. My artistic practice could be considered a continuation of my spiritual one. The large format paintings are built with pieces of rice paper drawn, painted, and sewn by hand. They recall the structure and the practice of sewing the Kesa, clothing worn by Zen Buddhist monks and nuns during meditation.
The gestures of sewing also extend into the drawings, notably in the drawings and poems of the project Des champs des puits. This project was born from the meeting between my drawings from the Minimal Drawings series and the poetry of Thierry Bodson. Thierry has laid down words in regard to about thirty of them. I, in turn, worked with his texts. The dialogue between our practices has engendered constellations of drawings/poems which alter through successive translations and transformations.
“Each day is woven in the expectation and in the hope of seeing a hint of meaning floating on the stream of dreams, something that holds, like a boat, a fish out of water that we could grab, a whisper that we could hear thanks to the slow stroke, to the touch under our fingers.”
Thierry Bodson, excerpt from a poem
of the Des champs des puits project.
→ PDF Presentation of the Traits d'union solo exhibition
→ PDF Catalogue of the Traits d'union solo exhibition at Odradek, Brussels
