Empreinte(s)
From February 6 to March 1, 2025
Collective exhibition
With Tiffany Bouelle, Janique Bourget, Alice Lebourg, Alice Roux, Marion Flament, Victoria Tanto, Mattia Listowski and Giula Zanvit.
The Empreinte(s) exhibition, at Galerie Porte B. from February 6 to March 1, 2025, brings together the work of eight artists at the crossroads of art and craft. Combining different techniques, materials and know-how, the works highlight the importance of the artisanal gesture in contemporary creation. Between heritage and innovation, reuse and creation, it offers a reflection on the transposition of the work to the work of art through its singularity and its staging.
Janique Bourget's relief drawings sculpted in paper invite us to rediscover a material often perceived as fragile, which she pushes to extremes. Her suspended, weightless works reveal organic, living forms. Her collaboration with glassblower Alice Lebourg gives rise to a monumental installation in which the fusion of paper and glass testifies to the beauty of the creative process, a subtle interplay between disappearance and reminiscence.
In a more textile register, Victoria Tanto explores the repetition of gesture as a creative principle. Her pieces, composed of twisted and embroidered threads, generate fascinating textures and volumes, where technique blends with an intuition that gives each piece a unique and emotional dimension. A tribute to the know-how and patience of craftsmanship.
Tiffany Bouelle, a Franco-Japanese artist, follows a meticulous process in which writing, drawing and line become acts of reclaiming body and spirit. Her painted noren - traditional Japanese curtains - are traversed like an invitation to travel, symbolizing the passage between two states of consciousness. Her work questions the notion of support and breaks free of the boundaries between painting, textile and sculpture. ​
Marion Flament draws inspiration from the materials, light and places that surround her to create installations, sculptures and images that transform our perception of time and space. Through trompe-l'œil and visual distortion, she reveals the strangeness of everyday life and highlights the memory of places by inscribing historical and architectural elements. In the Empreinte(s) exhibition, she presents a series of glazed ceramic rosaries created for La Samaritaine. Inspired by the building's Art Nouveau decor, her creepers embody the dialogue between craft and history.
Giulia Zanvit is sensitive to nature, and transforms the “poor” materials she gleans from her surroundings into works imbued with poetry. Her creations, which span painting, sculpture and installation, celebrate the beauty of simple gesture and the intuition of the creator. In the “Empreinte(s)” exhibition, she unveils previously unseen pieces, such as lighting fixtures made from papier-mâché and seashells, and giant sculptures in redwood, veritable tributes to nature.
Finally, Alice Roux and Mattia Listoski. work as a duo to explore innovative forms of material, combining concrete and resin in joint works that embody their respective worlds. Their creations, at the crossroads of design, architecture and graphic art, offer a fresh look at the relationship between matter and form, in a balancing act between strength and lightness.​
Empreinte(s) is an exhibition that, through its diversity and richness, invites us to rediscover the infinite potential of the artisanal gesture in contemporary art. Through these works, each artist reveals a unique approach to material, gesture and creation, constantly questioning the boundaries between art and craft.
