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A Swiss visual artist based in France, Alexia Lavanchy explores the fluid boundaries between figuration and abstraction, between organic and mineral matter, and between what is visible and what remains invisible. In her work, forms appear, fade away and reassemble themselves. They invite the viewer’s gaze to wander.

Each canvas is a space where plant fibres, pigments, lines and textures form internal cartographies. Fragmented bodies, landscapes, presences or memories seem to emerge.
Alexia is interested in the interactions between the body, living things and the landscape. Experiences become part of us and alter the way we inhabit the world, whilst our passage through it transforms our environment. The ground bears the marks of footsteps, constructions and extractions. What do these traces tell us about what has passed through us and what we leave behind in the world? What becomes of them over time?

Her approach is also rooted in her own history, marked by scars, displacements and detours. Some wounds change shape. They do not disappear. They become imprints, memory, matter, and enable us to take a different path, whilst allowing what remains unfinished to continue under other skies.

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Alexia explores accidents, erasures and layers, leaving room for the uncontrollable. The gesture becomes an instinctive form of expression, at times brutal, at times delicate. The fragmented bodies and open-ended forms are part of a quest for the finished form, in which each work becomes a new beginning.

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