Lyse Lemieux’s practice is rooted in drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation. Her most recent exhibition presented at Wil Aballe, Habiller une fugue / Dressing a fugue, brings together recent and earlier works, creating a dialogue between different periods of her practice.

In painting, sculpture, and installation, drawing remains a generative force, with line moving fluidly between surface and space. At times describing, constructing, or disrupting the figure, her gestures unsettle distinctions between abstraction and representation, allowing images and materials to remain open, provisional, and in flux.

In her most recent series of semi-figurative and abstract pencil crayon drawings, Lemieux further extends this exploration. Built through dense accumulations of colour, layered marks, and textured surfaces, these works foreground drawing as both an image-making process and a physical encounter with material.

The exhibition also includes works dating back to 2014. The ongoing…