Cabinet of Curiosities #16 | The Seams of Time
Dominique TORRENTE
Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Saint-Étienne and later at the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne in fine art, Dominique Torrente embarked on her artistic career at a very early stage. At the age of twenty-two, she exhibited at the ELAC, Lyon’s former centre for contemporary art, invited by Marie Claude Jeune, and presented her large-format works on paper (pages from books sewn together with thread to form palimpsests, fragile sheets of paper screen-printed with fragments of other texts, and displayed in the space (Tendances Contemporaines Rhône-Alpes exhibition). She has been exhibiting since the 2000s.
Recent solo exhibitions (selection)
2025 – Dans la trame de l’étoffe, Grande Salle des Cimaises, solo exhibition. Catalogue launch. Saint-Etienne
2024 – Les étendues fécondées, Pavillon de Fleury La Montagne, (with the support of ADAGP).
2023 – De Sève et de lumière, Galerie le 116 art, Villefranche/Saône and Transformé, Musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu, (as part of the Rugby World Cup).
2020 – À pied d’œuvre, solo exhibition, MOSTRA, Givors. Lecture by Elisabeth Chambon, curator.
2019 – Demain le paysage me traversera, solo exhibition, in conjunction with the Lyon Biennale, Galerie 116 Art, Villefranche.
