The exhibition “Une fenêtre contre le temps” (A Window Against Time), conceived by Claire Luna, is part of an economy of the gaze in which the works stand back from the tumult without ever abstracting themselves from it. Here, drawing unfolds as an expanded condition, a diffuse presence that crosses gestures, spaces and temporalities. Between discretion and intensity, the practices brought together privilege open forms, slow attentions, regimes of appearance that reject the spectacular in favor of more subdued zones of exchange.
Extending the experience of the residency at the Drawing Factory, the exhibition invests the Drawing Hotel as an inhabited space – traversed, shared, sometimes displaced. Here, the works redefine usage, blurring the threshold between intimate and public, and inventing ways of being together that are less a matter of affirmation than of co-presence. Between fleeting gestures and lasting installations, Une fenêtre contre le temps opens up a breathable space, where the gaze learns to stand differently.
With : Amélie Barnathan, Tamaris Borrelly, Marguerite Canguilhem, Dana Cojbuc, Antoine Conde, Camille Demirian, Louise Dumas, Camila Eslava, Baptiste Filippi, Clara-Louise Hoffsaes, Thibaut Huchard, Justine Joly, Boryana Petkova, Merlin Rogeat and Adji Titus.