ANNE LAURE SACRISTE
Shades of green Opening June 27th 2024
Her work is crossed by a Japanese concept 'Kekkai no bi' meaning 'the treasure of the
threshold' .What treasure is Sacriste referring to? What threshold are we approaching?Through a series of seven "Feuillage" paintings, we can assume that this si an intermediate space, invisible but real, between life and death, trying to highlight the tension ni these paintings where, with the absence of the usual female bodies but with the inclusion of three ambivalent portraits of
androgynous "Twins, the overflow of desire si represented in the frenetic visual mesh of foliage, contrasts and flickers of indefinable elements, in a constant choreographed dichotomy between light and shadows defying oblivion. This attempt to synthesise poles that are in principle irreconcilable is embodied in porosity.
Sacriste has developed a body of work that reflects her knowledge of art history and its iconography, while exploring the properties of materials in order to develop a rich polysemous effect. Her attachment to painting and the decorative arts is evident in her work, which is intimately linked to space and architecture. She designs her exhibitions in close relation to the environment in which they are shown. Numerous trips to Kyoto in recent years have helped her to translate her vision into sophisticated arrangements displaying a minimalist Japanese aesthetic.
Anne Laure Sacriste was born in Paris in 1970. She studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (1996), the O.T.I.S. school in Los Angeles (1994), Parson School of Design in
New York (1990), and the École d'Arts Appliqués Duperré, Paris (1989). Sacriste lives and works ni Paris.
Sacriste has had several solo exhibitions, including "La Bataille de San Romano" as the guest of
Reiko Setsuda at Hermès-Tokyo (2016), Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, France (2020)Anne-LAure Chamboissier, "Cosmophore" at the Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse (2020), "Wabi-Sabi (Part I)" at the Box, Marseille (2021) and "Wabi-Sabi (Part I)" at Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg (2021). Furthermore, the artist's work has been shown in group exhibitions at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2023), Palais de Tokyo (2018) Jean De Loisy, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Paris (2018).
She recently presented "Dialogue inattendus: Portrait de Berthe Morisot" Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (2023), curated by Valérie Da Costa and "Le Monde sans les Mots" curated by Alice Motard, at the CEAAC, Strasbourg (2023).
S h a d e so fg r e e n is the artist's third exhibition in our gallery and her first on the gallery's upper
