2025, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
During my three-month residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Pairs, I developed a body of work spanning drawing, monoprinting, sculpture and installation. The drawings expand on traditional drawing structures through the manipulation of linear perspective and patterned surfaces.
Many of these drawings include parquetry, tiles and patterned floors I’ve observed throughout Paris. Figures drift in and out of the compositions, deliberately interrupting the frame and offer a brief glimpse of an action that's passing by. These interruptions suggest the feeling of just missing “the moment”: a perfect snapshot spoiled by a dog darting past, a gallery crowded with visitors or a pigeon clumsily scavenging for food.
This project began as a response to the drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. His inventiveness and sensitivity to line inspired me to look for a balance between precision, looseness and chance within my own practice. Borrowing from monotype techniques, I sketch a composition in graphite on paper, then place it face down on a bed of charcoal. By retracing and pressing firmly from the back, the image is embossed line by line, appearing as a reversed charcoal drawing, a mirrored echo of the original graphite sketch.
