Françoise Pétrovitch
À bruits secrets
Gruyères Caslte entrusts its keys to Françoise Pétrovitch. For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, the French artist takes over the ancient residence of the counts and scatters snatches of mysterious stories. Drawing on a repertoire of sometimes fragile, sometimes threatening images, she presents her abundant work (painting, sculpture, video) and unveils a body of work created for the castle.
Throughout the rooms, hieratic animals stand guard, while portraits slip between the old paintings, revealing themselves to our gaze. Françoise Pétrovitch plays with the palette of places and contrasts to bring us face to face with elusive figures who, frozen in their frames or modeled in the earth, silently intone a spellbinding round.
Exhibition curator,
Filipe Dos Santos
With the kind collaboration of Semiose (Paris) and Galerie C (Neuchâtel)
Opening
Friday 9th July, at 6.30 pm
Françoise Pétrovitch
Since her beginnings in the 1990s, Françoise Pétrovitch has created a unique work. Starting with drawing, over the years she has moved into painting, washes, prints, glass, ceramics and video. She regularly engages in dialogue with her predecessors, while developing her own intimate artistic repertoire. Françoise Pétrovitch's universe is ambiguous and transgressive, playing with conventional boundaries.
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