L'âge du Trait

Aysha E. Arar, Noémie Bablet, Paul Becker, Sylvano Bussotti, Miriam Cahn, Jean Cocteau, Ezio Gribaudo, HaYoung, Valentine Hugo, Dada Khanyisa, Lucile Littot, Sophie Lloyd, Mel Odom, Liselor Perez, David Rappeneau, Jessy Razafimandimby, Jean Souverbie, Wei Libo

Bringing together eighteen artists from different generations and contexts, L’âge du trait gathers a group of works on paper that examine portraiture through the multiplicity of its forms. As a medium of immediacy and intimacy, paper records the swiftness of a gesture, the economy of a line, the density of a gaze. It becomes the place where modes of embodiment are tested, where attempts to grasp a presence, an attitude, or a way of inhabiting the world unfold.

For this presentation, a salon style display has been chosen, placing the works side by side in a deliberately dense visual continuity. This proximity evokes the atmosphere of a domestic interior, while generating a series of formal and conceptual resonances between the pieces. Together they form a field of correspondences, like the fragments of a vast puzzle through which the exhibition proposes the reading of a collective portrait.