Despite the teacher’s threats, and the jeers of child prodigies
Gratin•Apr 29, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026
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Despite the teacher’s threats,
and the jeers of child prodigies
Elise Nguyen Quoc
At first glance, my works seem to fulfill all the qualities expected of what is commonly called a “beautiful drawing,” a kind of technical virtuosity that mobilizes a wide range of historical drawing practices. But that is not what this is. My gestures do not arise from knowledge shaped by art or by art history. They are an extension of everyday gestures, of the task to be carried out, the continuation of an ordinary human activity. My practice is grounded in chance and the everyday, not in ideas: doing, wandering, cooking, cleaning, discarding… It is from these ordinary acts of life that my work emerges. No exalted genius here—I invent nothing.
The traces I reproduce were produced without any intention. What I photograph are infra-lives, residues, traces of my own activity or that of others, human or nonhuman—minute fragments inhabiting the margins of major subjects, escaping ordinary vision. Everything…
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Despite the teacher’s threats, and the jeers of child prodigies
Gratin•Apr 29, 2026 — Jun 27, 2026
Press Release
Despite the teacher’s threats,
and the jeers of child prodigies
Elise Nguyen Quoc
At first glance, my works seem to fulfill all the qualities expected of what is commonly called a “beautiful drawing,” a kind of technical virtuosity that mobilizes a wide range of historical drawing practices. But that is not what this is. My gestures do not arise from knowledge shaped by art or by art history. They are an extension of everyday gestures, of the task to be carried out, the continuation of an ordinary human activity. My practice is grounded in chance and the everyday, not in ideas: doing, wandering, cooking, cleaning, discarding… It is from these ordinary acts of life that my work emerges. No exalted genius here—I invent nothing.
The traces I reproduce were produced without any intention. What I photograph are infra-lives, residues, traces of my own activity or that of others, human or nonhuman—minute fragments inhabiting the margins of major subjects, escaping ordinary vision. Everything…
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