Exhibitions

The exhibition "Remembering Beautiful Things" with artists Juliette Lemontey and Laura Pasquino will take place at Château de Houtain-le-Val in Belgium.

The duo exhibition takes visitors on a poetic journey between Juliette's artworks and Laura's ceramics. It unfolds within the enchanting setting of a historic castle dating back to the 12th century. This place has witnessed the ups and downs of history, from the passions of the Duke of Brabant to the resilience of the women who have left their mark there.

Juliette Lemontey, a French painter, is known for her ability to capture life, the grace of movements, and the silences of faces. Her work on memory and identity resonates deeply with the history of Château de Houtain-Le-Val. This exhibition also marks her debut at the Grège Gallery in Belgium.

On the other hand, Laura Pasquino, a ceramist based in Amsterdam, explores life's contrasts, between softness and harshness. Through her ceramics, she plays with textures, raw strength, and the organic shapes of nature. The cracks and tears on her pieces become visual metaphors for human scars and wounds.

Artistic practices and themes often come together through common concerns related to the burning issues that shake the world. The project Histoires du sensible draws the imaginary and poetic contours of current issues in which nine artists with transversal research respond to each other. It is a question of the flight of time, of memory, of abstraction, of the plant and its entanglements within the territory which is an invisible motif. The works of yann delacour, photographs of urban sculptures, made on the outskirts of his studio, rub shoulders with the sublime unique prints of ilanit illouz fossilized by the salt of the Dead Sea or by collected minerals. Both artists share a sensitivity for the observation of an urban or natural landscape, in which each space, each time illuminates the other and brings it matter to reveal and clarify itself. It is also a question of the uniqueness of the photographic medium in the evanescent ambrotypes of Eric Antoine. Using wet collodion, a slow and complex 19th century process, he produces masterful photographs where visual accidents appear in his prints of lunar forms and ancestral olive trees. On the borders of his formal and colorist research, Sandra Mauro achieves abstractions between photographs and paintings. Her dazzling spectral compositions become spaces of contemplation and meditation. We find a similar modus operandi in the practice of Gilles Pourtier, for whom sculpture and photography reflect the same level of demand and research, allowing him to develop a dialogue with the material nourished by his philosophical readings.

The sensual intertwined sculptures of hermine bourdin and the masterful Eclipses suspendues of félicie d'estienne d'orves whose cyclic and progressive rotations associated with the unfolding of luminous and hypnotic states come to punctuate with grace, a subject where each of the artistic practices create obvious correspondences. Suddenly, the secret and involuntary connections form a whole, like the textual works of zoé vayssières, realized from engraved copper plates, or the colored acrylics on aluminium of charles warde.

By standing at the crossroads of kaleidoscopic works, the artistic writings exhibited translate the state of the world, show mental landscapes and a whole imagination to tell universal stories.

Béatrice Andrieux

Curator and art critic