La Petite Galerie

"Landscape backgrounds in the works of the great masters of the 16th and 17th centuries were always an object of intense fascination for Numa Droz. On the edge of the main subject, and beyond its anecdotal nature, there was, in these minute details, an open door to an infinite reverie." Pierre Souchaud editor of Artension magazine, (excerpt)

"Mémoires vives" is Marie-Agnès Gachet Mauroz's first solo show at the small Françoise Besson gallery. It will feature some thirty works, following on from those shown in the exhibition l'Oeil et le Coeur, from the collection of Françoise Besson.

The works are created with a bias towards relief, wax composition and the fusion of materials, resulting in a pictorial expression in which the treatment of matter alone is the subject. Fragments of memory, mutated into projections on canvas and paper, create a universe where emotions become colors.