- Éditions Dilecta

Prima Materia

For this carte blanche invitation at Dilecta, Juliette Minchin unveils a new phase of her work, one never exhibited before: the “Hydromancie” [Hydromancy] series made up of 5 mesmerizing drawings in which bursts of pigments become one with layers of translucent wax, completed by a wide piece of 2.50 × 1.20 m; and a dozen of photograms, the “Cérogrammes”, realized with pieces of drapery from recycled artworks. Two fundamentals of her work can be found in those pieces: wax, her key material, and light. read more

10 Mar 2022, 14:09 Édito Stéphanie Pioda

CROSSING SILENCES

“Traverser les silences” brings together artists from different backgrounds and careers in order to freely embrace a diversity of practices related to current figurative painting. The exhibited works, some of which were created specifically for the occasion, invite us to reflect on the ineffable aspect of the painting. It is a question of exploring the bark of the paintings, that thin layer of material retaining the traces of gestures carried out in the silence of the studio. But beyond exploring their materiality, we are also invited to immerse ourselves in the images they make visible. These images, which are essentially mute, seek to inspire a seductive disturbance for the writing of numerous stories. read more

20 Jan 2022, 11:32 Édito Thomas Fort