Isabelle Durand

Isabelle Durand Exposition Tout Public Chez Isabelle Durand, painting, notebooks and sculptures proceed from the same instinctive, free and experimental movement. Everything often begins with an encounter with material: objects gleaned during walks, fragments of daily life, artistic and literary references, memories of nature or childhood. These elements nourish a sensitive imagination that then transforms into plaster, earth, paper or color. Sculpture remains the anchor point of this approach. Her small assemblages, which she willingly calls her "DIY projects," extend a joy of making with the hands, almost childlike, where the found object becomes a relic, a poetic form or a trace of an inner narrative. It is from there that painting gradually emerged: as if color had called to the canvas, and as if sculpture had led her toward another space of gesture and covering. In her paintings, often created on free canvas, without a frame, Isabelle Durand moves forward without a totally fixed project. Acrylic washes are superimposed, flow, cover each other or let furtive details appear. The accident, far from being erased, becomes a stage of the process. Indigo, the color of repentance and covering, acts as a developer. Windows remain open in the material, letting one see the memory of the canvas, its hesitations, its strata and its emergences. The notebooks extend this research into a more intimate and daily space. Inks, oil pastels, traces of fingers or brushes compose a free laboratory there, where forms and motifs emerge gradually. Through these three practices, Isabelle Durand celebrates the unexpected: an instinctive, jubilant creation, almost childlike in its freedom, but crossed by a true inner quest. From 11 SEP to 18 OCT Mouscron - Old swimming pool Opening FRI 11.09 – 19:00 Exhibition open TUE 13:30 > 18:00 FRI 15:00 > 18:30 SUN 10:00 > 14:00 Closed on public holidays For groups, by reservation at 0(032) 56 860 174