Drapé en mouvement 6

Mathilde Lestiboudois's drawings made in oil on paper or oil on tracing paper constitute a corpus of works independent but parallel to her pictorial practice. Working on much tighter formats - paintings rarely being less than 100 × 140 cm while drawings do not exceed 20 × 30 cm - she carries out a different reflection on composition: although the execution is faster, the attention to the subject is more precise, more meticulous. Made without decoration, the chosen objects (column, staircase, ladder, drapery) are drawn in series, almost obsessively. Although the same object is represented several times, it is placed in a unique atmosphere. Its representation is therefore no less singular and marked by the passage of time. Mathilde Lestiboudois thus pushes the plastic research of the subject to its climax, infusing it with a supplement of soul.