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For her first solo exhibition in the main space of Galerie Derouillon, Mathilde Albouy creates an environment featuring a new series of lacquered wood sculptures, most of which are filled with wax tinted in a river-green hue.
Entering "Lucky You" feels like stepping into a gothic heroine’s bedroom or being drawn to the edge of a nixie’s pond (river nymph). Mathilde Albouy’s world is similar to ours but slightly askew. As if it were transposed into dark wood, soaked in ink; some surfaces gleam, others are almost sticky. A world of shadows that the artist likes to refer to as a swamp comes into being. Sinuous, expressive lines bring the works to life—they seem to move, evoking the vibrant lightness of dragonflies. For Albouy the swamp is a fictional place of origin, the source from which her works emerge.
The sensuality of cursive forms and shiny materials in Albouy’s work emphasizes the physical relationship induced by sculpture: "I think of sculpture as an erotic gesture," the artist…
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For her first solo exhibition in the main space of Galerie Derouillon, Mathilde Albouy creates an environment featuring a new series of lacquered wood sculptures, most of which are filled with wax tinted in a river-green hue.
Entering "Lucky You" feels like stepping into a gothic heroine’s bedroom or being drawn to the edge of a nixie’s pond (river nymph). Mathilde Albouy’s world is similar to ours but slightly askew. As if it were transposed into dark wood, soaked in ink; some surfaces gleam, others are almost sticky. A world of shadows that the artist likes to refer to as a swamp comes into being. Sinuous, expressive lines bring the works to life—they seem to move, evoking the vibrant lightness of dragonflies. For Albouy the swamp is a fictional place of origin, the source from which her works emerge.
The sensuality of cursive forms and shiny materials in Albouy’s work emphasizes the physical relationship induced by sculpture: "I think of sculpture as an erotic gesture," the artist…
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