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09/18/2025 - 10/25/2025
Galerie Bacqueville
Gautier Deblonde continues his exploration of the intimacy of creation with a new series dedicated to artists' studios, a subject he approaches poetically, through silences and suspended moments. Since 2004, artists from around the world have entrusted him with capturing their lairs in their absence.
Barely a Place" brings together works that do not illustrate the artist, but suggest him through his surroundings: displaced objects, fragments of material, studio remains, silences of spaces. Here, the intimate is never frontal; it is read through tenuous presences,
secondary signs, residual elements.
This is not a mapping of studios, nor a visual biography. It is a sensitive journey where each piece is a trace of existence, an echo of a thought at work, a hollow imprint. The artists gathered here deliver, intentionally or not, zones of intimacy, but without pathos or staging. They show what escapes the direct gaze: interrupted gestures, objects without status, interstitial places.
The exhibition is composed of fragments, empty spaces, and materials in waiting. Works that do not claim to say everything, but that leave enough silence for the gaze to settle there. Absence then becomes language.
Galerie Bacqueville
Gautier Deblonde continues his exploration of the intimacy of creation with a new series dedicated to artists' studios, a subject he approaches poetically, through silences and suspended moments. Since 2004, artists from around the world have entrusted him with capturing their lairs in their absence.
Barely a Place" brings together works that do not illustrate the artist, but suggest him through his surroundings: displaced objects, fragments of material, studio remains, silences of spaces. Here, the intimate is never frontal; it is read through tenuous presences,
secondary signs, residual elements.
This is not a mapping of studios, nor a visual biography. It is a sensitive journey where each piece is a trace of existence, an echo of a thought at work, a hollow imprint. The artists gathered here deliver, intentionally or not, zones of intimacy, but without pathos or staging. They show what escapes the direct gaze: interrupted gestures, objects without status, interstitial places.
The exhibition is composed of fragments, empty spaces, and materials in waiting. Works that do not claim to say everything, but that leave enough silence for the gaze to settle there. Absence then becomes language.