Previous Productions
The Deep Time of Rivers
Suzanne Husky
Curator: Lauranne Germond
January 26 — April 7, 2024
In the great tradition of naturalistic illustration, Suzanne Husky invites us to reconsider the deep time of rivers through the geopolitical history of alliances between humans and beavers. An epic adventure, conceived with the collaboration of the philosopher-researcher Baptiste Morizot, which teems with tasty sketches, and re-anchors us in a world vaster and more wonderful than that of human history: the great history of life.
Admiratio
Noémie Sauve
Curator: Anne de Malleray
October 14, 2023 — January 7, 2024
For Noémie Sauve, inspiration always begins in contact with a field. This exhibition presents works from two scientific expeditions – Tara (2017) and Vulcano (2021). On site, she collects data, samples, colours and shapes. Back in the studio, by exploring multiple formats and techniques, between drawing, sculpture and chemical reactions of materials, she seeks to recreate the invisible and threatened worlds of corals or the incandescence of a volcanic stone. Noémie Sauve navigates freely and without hierarchy between the naturalistic and fantastic registers to create works that, in the mode of analogy and diversion, invite us to wonder and inquiry.
Exhibition Aurelie Nemours Prize 2023
Collective exhibition
Curators: Serge and Marie Sophie Lemoine
13 — 17 September 2023
In 2000, Aurelie Nemours decided to create an annual prize that bears her name. The Aurelie Nemours Prize rewards any artist, regardless of his discipline, whose work pursues the rigorous and spiritual plastic quest that has been his. She wrote: “Thinking that art is a struggle against the disarray of our civilization, I firmly believe that the spiritual charge of art is the only recourse and salvation.” In 2023, two artists will be rewarded: graphic designer Irma Boom and painter Hans-Jörg Glattfelder.
Pulp.e
Benjamin Hochart
Curator: Fabienne Bideaud
April 14, 2023 — September 6, 2023
The Pulp-e project questions the construction of the image, in its reappropriation, in its writing, in its transposition, includes the body, in order to make us wander through possible narratives. The title refers to the specific typology of pulp (popular comics) and the addition of the E proposes a concrete meaning, the pulp. A hybrid title, the exhibition will present several states: scenarios, set elements, films. The popular and folkloric forms taken up and drawn by Benjamin Hochart will go beyond the framework of the sheet of paper and the Drawing Lab will become the theatre of a new narrative whose various scenarios will be activated by the spectator.
« Nous qui désirons sans fin »
Karine Rougier
Drawing Now Prize 2022
January 20 — March 31, 2023
Karine Rougier, the 2022 Drawing Now Prize winner, offers a unique group experience in her 2023 solo exhibition at the Drawing Lab: “Nous qui désirons sans fin”. Awarded the Drawing Now Prize in 2022, the artist is taking advantage of this invitation to propose a real collective walk. From drawings realized with graphite or gouache to paintings, via watercolors, and from films to slideshows, her exhibition offers more than one story. This exhibition is a collection of stories by Karine Rougier and her special guests. Like a plunge into drawing, the exhibition invites us to play, pick a card and read a new world.
Du Temps sois la mesure
François Réau
Curator: Léo Marin
October 14, 2022 — January 5, 2023
Irrespective of their subject matter, all drawings start with a dot, then a line to another, and so on. A bit like mapping a path from point A to point B. Which is also how humans connected the stars in the night sky. It’s how constellations were created, and the way they are still represented today.
Might star constellations not have been the first de facto abstract drawings?
Yet, still today, these celestial drawings situate our very bodies and individual identities. Between two fictitious points. Between two planes: the earth and the sky.
Series of points like these which are connected by lines, let us project ourselves into the future and imagine more intricate drawings or paths to follow. That is the starting point of Du Temps sois la mesure (“Of Time be the Measure”). A handful of strokes and dots whose intention extends beyond what we can see: a more extensive pictorial projection, a measure of space and time.
Anniversary of the Aurelie Nemours Foundation — 20 years
Collective exhibition
Curator: Serge Lemoine
1 July - 21 September 2022
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of this Prize, with a delay due to the pandemic, an exhibition is organised by the Aurelie Nemours Association with a choice of works by each of the laureates, presented in the rooms of the Drawing Lab, 17 rue de Richelieu in Paris from July 1 to September 21, 2022.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue and its opening will coincide in the same venue with the presentation of the 2021 prize to Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri on 30 June 2022 by Mr Xavier Darcos, Chancellor of the Institut de France.
I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau
Chourouk Hriech
Curator of the exhibition: Jérôme Sans
March 18 — June 15, 2022
The exhibition I See a Bird / Je vois un oiseau is the scene of multiple narratives, a succession of “drawn voyages,” where changing landscapes, real or fictional, blend into each other. Connected in a fluid and borderless environment, birds are our guides here. Free and autonomous, they embody the problems of lines, trajectories, energy (“creative wings”), the ways of the world, and landscapes, which all permeate the work of Chourouk Hriech. Through drawing, the artist creates a metaphorical location, a city-world whose main inhabitants are birds that are also witnesses to the ecological crisis.
The Black Number
Nicolas Daubanes
Drawing Now Awards 2021
January 29 — March 4, 2022
The black numeral refers to the difference in subjectivity between two opposing forces. Between fantasy and rationalism, these figures ultimately prove to be false since they are based on an unknown. It is these unknowns that Nicolas Daubanes is attacking. The exhibition Le Chiffre Noir is not a pleasure walk. Quite the contrary. The subjects treated by the artist are neither beautiful nor light. And yet. In his practice, Nicolas Daubanes confronts the strongest or most fragile materials that are created from fire. For this solo exhibition at the Drawing Lab, concrete, glass, ceramics, iron filings (signature)… are works that carry stories that question us in our relationship with the past and the collective memory.
RESOUNDING SONGS
Vanessa Enríquez
Curator: Frida Robles
October 16, 2021 — January 12, 2022
Around the world, the oldest artistic expressions are linked to a spiritual approach and most of them have been discovered inside caves. The cave is a universal archetype of self-reflection and communication with other kingdoms, closely related to the symbol of the “heart”. Using the heart of the cave as a mythological setting and anchor, Vanessa Enríquez has withdrawn and connected over the past year to the ancestral practices of drawing, singing and ritual using the VHS magnetic tape as a drawing tool, musical instrument and talisman.