, Paris

Emmanuelle Renard investigates with her paintings the knot that connects – or divides – two spaces, two times, two worlds. Her painting materializes the trace of the fracture, worms its way into the fragile moment in which everything gets done and undone. It is a challenge, a wager comparable to a Moebius ring distorting the perfect shape of the circle...

A painter of extremes, Emmanuelle Renard works on a tension, exploring the distortion of shapes through body lines that take substance in matter as they disintegrate, to the point of becoming devouring entities. The line becomes a cut, a disjunction, while simultaneously swirling up in a curl that becomes a tentacle, a possession.

Trough the colours that she makes herself out of pigments, her argument acquires a presence which is very physical and allusive at the same time, incarnating that space-in-between through baroque constructions where hot is juxtaposed to cold and flames are exposed to ice. In this battle on canvas where line and matter engage in single combat, there is no space for lukewarmness.