In the glow of our lack

Group exhibition curated by Jeanne Held
bringing together nine approaches to contemporary drawing as
part of the ‘Résonance’ programme at the 18th Lyon
Biennale.

The artists :

ARIANE CROZET
MATT COCO
MAGALIE DARSOUZE
VIOLAINE DESPORTES
LIONEL GRASSOT
JEANNE HELD
YOAN LAFRAGETTE
SUAN MÜLLER
MÉLANIE PLANCHE

Usually associated with grief or frustration, the absence here is
that of the missing mould – a fertile crucible and a space set apart
through which the drawing gains its momentum without melancholy. In response to
hammered-home, over-represented realities—sometimes hard to swallow—the artists
brought together here practise a deliberate economy of forgetting, where the absent
becomes a driving force for creation. Created in relief, the drawing takes root
at the edge of a void, in the pleasure of the gesture, the discreet joy of the line
that persists, branches off or withdraws. The works of Ariane Crozet, Matt
Coco, Magalie Darsouze, Violaine Desportes, Lionel Grassot, Jeanne
Held, Yoan Lafragette, Suan Müller and Mélanie Planche offer us
an impression of this here, in the physical and sensory sense of the term.
Where the figure is missing, the eye that perceives it becomes a full participant in
the image: such is the subtle invitation underpinning this exhibition.”