What Places Remember

With *Ce que les lieux retiennent*, Claire Vaudey presents her first solo exhibition at Galerie Dilecta, accompanied by a text by Chris Marie Tyan. The exhibition brings together a collection of previously unseen works, including her new series *Jachère*, as well as sketches revealing the early stages of her drawing process.

Claire Vaudey’s works revolve around the theme of the garden. Initially inspired by the background settings of Italian Renaissance Annunciations, the artist has since moved away from this to explore other spaces: the atmosphere of Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman’s garden, as well as interior spaces—almost monastic in nature—where isolation, memory, and the mental construction of space come into play.

On paper, this work takes the form of geometric lines, suggested architectural forms, and mineral shapes. Tempera interacts with silkscreen printing, creating effects of texture and depth. The color palettes—deliberately limited and at times dissonant—create a delicate tension between light and shadow.

Through this exhibition, Claire Vaudey invites viewers to step into her creative process and observe what places preserve: traces, tensions, and transitions between interior and exterior, between constructed memory and mental landscape.