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TANGIBLE MATERIALS & INVISIBLE STORIES

GROUP SHOW

Giulia Zanvit - Béatrice Bissara - Tiffany Bouelle - Solène Kerlo - Julia A. Etedi - Janique Bourget - Alice Lebourg

From September 7 to 21, 2024

The exhibition "Tangible Materials & Invisible Narratives," held from September 7 to 21 at the Porte B. gallery, brings together the works of seven female artists. Julia A. Etedi, Béatrice Bissara, Tiffany Bouelle, Janique Bourget, Solène Kerlo, Alice Lebourg, and Giulia Zanvit all share a common thread: making matter speak, transcending its physical reality to make it say something other than what it is, revealing its hidden history, real or imagined.

Solène Kerlo's paintings, with their mineral and earthy palette, reveal elemental forms in relief, recounting her meditative experiences and her journey toward a more intuitive and wild nature. Exploring great founding myths, the artist questions modern man's relationship to his roots and his collective unconscious. Her work presents itself as an initiatory voyage, a quest for origins.

This quest resonates particularly with the work of Béatrice Bissara, who explores the evolving relationship between humankind and the world. Here again, human perception is part of a broader reflection on the invisible connections between nature and individual consciousness. In her Horizons series on canvas, Béatrice Bissara imbues the painterly gesture with a meditative and hypnotic quality. She uses the formal principle of pointillism, as practiced by Aboriginal artists, to give form to new inner landscapes.

For Julia A. Etedi, this relationship with nature is even more instinctive. Evoking maps of vibrant landscapes, her works seek to pictorially translate the invisible movements of nature. Inspired by the seasons and natural cyclical rhythms, the artist positions herself as a witness, gathering fragments of these variations to preserve their memory.

This quest for pure gesture—as a pictorial transcription of experience—is also found in the abstract canvases of Tiffany Bouelle, who, for the first time, opens a window onto her inner world with the series Seinaru Mori and Half. In these works, the artist recounts her introspective journey during her postpartum period and, later, her residency in Japan and the antagonisms arising from her dual cultural identity.

Giulia Zanvit's work, meanwhile, focuses on revealing the poetry of the moment, the beauty of the simple gesture, by collecting and recycling materials gleaned from the surrounding nature. For the exhibition, she presents, in particular, a series of sculptures created during her residency on the island of Naxos, such as this "Korean necklace" made of bricks and fishing nets gathered on the beach and intended for some giants of mythology.

Finally, Janique Bourget and Alice Lebourg explore the very nature of matter, its cycles and transformations. Combining two seemingly opposing materials—paper and glass—they evoke passage and disappearance. Blown glass takes shape on the embers of the paper sculpture, imprinting traces of its bygone existence, a true meditation on the passage of time and the memory of beautiful things. Through a diverse visual journey, blending painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing, this exhibition invites visitors to look beyond the surface of the works and their materiality to explore the "invisible narratives" they contain. It encourages us to reflect on how we perceive and interpret the world.

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