Exhibition - Igoko

IGOKO is born of spaces that leave the body and mind in suspension. From the cliffs of the South-West to the remains of Alspach Abbey, these are layers of stone, horizons and vertical views that have left the artist's mouth agape.

Moving from immaculate white to the hues of pink sandstone, the exhibition immerses us in the know-how and savoir-être of the artist's encounters. Having inherited their practices, she allows herself to be guided by the techniques and stories that have been passed on to her: she dips her sieve like the hands of a washerwoman, transforms wadded paper pulp into a stained-glass sheet that reveals its weft under the rays of light, scoops out letters from which she suspends the thickness of the words in public, superimposes manufactured sheets through a patient and rigorous gesture until the choreography impregnates the body with an automatism.

A meal scene invites itself between the sheets. The artist embroiders the initials of ghostly guests, dead or alive, and lends an ear to what is confided there, at the corner of the pots and bursts on the edges of the table, to what might be chewed behind the paper napkins. The artist's techniques are essentialized here, bringing paper - and not only paper - to reveal its thickness, optical vibrations and narrative capacity.

The Estratu series of sculptures, meanwhile, is made up of sheets of paper cut into strips, gathered together and then assembled at the ends using a book-binding technique.

Here, the artist's techniques are essentialized, enabling the material of paper - and not only paper - to reveal its thickness, optical vibrations and narrative capacity.

Igoko is an ode to those who work in the silence of their gestures, to that which allows us to rise and rise again, to those things and encounters that blow our embers.