Artistic approach
Based on her experiences of different regions, Anaïs Lelièvre’s graphic works reproduce crosscutting dynamics, oscillating from ceramics to installation, between meticulous concentration and monumental deployment, contextual inscriptions and nomadic fluctuations. Like the place explored, a fragment of matter, mineral or vegetable, porous or stratified, growing or crumbling, gives rise to a small-format drawing. Through digital multiplication and successive enlargements, this drawing-matrix is itself grown until it decomposes, generating other drawings on the scale of an immersive environment.
Her approach often goes beyond the production of a single installation and is continued in several spaces, where the same drawing evolves, stratifies recently experienced residencies and reconfigures in line with the new site.
At the Domain, Anaïs Lelièvre has laid out a composite landscape, in which series of works coexist, the results of several of the places she has encountered, like so many concretions or shards, as if in a memorial or psychic space; between the fragments, a vibratile flow line is in the making, shifting away from local anchorage towards a continuity of experiences, crossed as much as crossing.
More than a crossing of spaces, the exhibition opens up a crossing of time that makes our understanding of the world oscillate between microscopic and macroscopic, local and global scales, between hardness and fragility, fault and fluidity, stability and change, erosion and construction, formlessness and composition, organic and mineral, abstract and incarnate, activating a form of vitality in the vibration of eye and though.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
FRANCE
Anaïs Lelièvre (born 1982) graduated with honours from the Rouen School of Art with a Higher National Degree in Visual Expression (DNSEP) and went on to take a Doctorate at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Since a residency in Iceland in late 2015, her practice has developed through anchorages to the various places she has travelled, with special attention paid to rocks and soils. By pursuing strata, porosities, shards and vegetable and organic growth, her creation has densified.
Begun in 2016, her ceramic work has been regularly exhibited since 2022. In 2024, two residencies at the Lyon Observatory and the Museum of Ceramics in Lezoux saw her collaborating with geologists, astrophysicists, palaeontologists and archaeologists. A collaboration with a geophysicist is underway, focusing on the “critical zone”, in the context of the Sorbonne University Alliance’s Biodiversity, Evolution, Ecology and Society Initiative (IBEES).
Anaïs Lelièvre is represented by the Capazza Gallery in Nançay.
