Naturaleza muerta resucitando
Crèvecœur•Sep 05, 2025 — Nov 29, 2025
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Crèvecoeur is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery dedicated to Emma Reyes (1919–2003), a singular Colombian artist whose work remained largely unknown for a long time.
The exhibition brings together a group of emblematic works from her practice alongside archival documents, spanning nearly five decades of creation. It unfolds across the gallery’s three spaces, including 5 rue de Beaune — a site of historical resonance, where Reyes held a solo exhibition in 1967, when the space housed the Galerie Suzanne de Coninck.
Born out of wedlock to a prominent father and an Indigenous mother from Boyacá, Emma Reyes was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Bogotá at the age of five, where she remained locked away until she escaped at eighteen. It was there that she learned embroidery, a practice in which she became the most gifted among the young girls forced to do it daily.
As she became a painter — without academic training — she invented her own techniques. Though she never…
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Naturaleza muerta resucitando
Crèvecœur•Sep 05, 2025 — Nov 29, 2025
Press Release
Crèvecoeur is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery dedicated to Emma Reyes (1919–2003), a singular Colombian artist whose work remained largely unknown for a long time.
The exhibition brings together a group of emblematic works from her practice alongside archival documents, spanning nearly five decades of creation. It unfolds across the gallery’s three spaces, including 5 rue de Beaune — a site of historical resonance, where Reyes held a solo exhibition in 1967, when the space housed the Galerie Suzanne de Coninck.
Born out of wedlock to a prominent father and an Indigenous mother from Boyacá, Emma Reyes was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Bogotá at the age of five, where she remained locked away until she escaped at eighteen. It was there that she learned embroidery, a practice in which she became the most gifted among the young girls forced to do it daily.
As she became a painter — without academic training — she invented her own techniques. Though she never…
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