Oneiros (Ὄνειρος) is a Greek word meaning dream, and with it, the two artists propose a visual journey through a dreamlike landscape. Through geometric shapes and abstract compositions, they explore the fragility of dreams, their rhythms, their intensity… and also their absence. Each piece is a window to the invisible: mental structures, diffuse emotions and landscapes that only exist between memory and oblivion.

FufuLène’s ceramics propose an architecture of the emotions, sensations, and rhythms that inhabit dreams and reverie. They capture the essence of spaces and mental states filled with emptiness, silence, ruptures, pauses and repetition. “In this exhibition, I investigate concave and convex curves as metaphors for dreamlike wanderings. Using three patterns (one, two, or three curves), I worked by stretching their volumes in height, repeating, inverting, or assembling their rhythm to create ensembles that dialogue with each other, even allowing them to be stacked to generate new compositions. The pieces presented, designed on a potter’s wheel, make porcelain, with its whiteness and finesse, the protagonist. They speak of the ephemeral and its fragility. Their smooth surfaces and ethereal profiles evoke clouds and moons in which we often lose ourselves; bodies and minds suspended, defying gravity; curves, repetitions, and ruptures with which our wanderings surprise us.” — FufuLène

This exhibition is an invitation to experience the suspension of the dreamlike moment. The works open to the viewer like half-open doors in the middle of a dream, an invitation to let the imagination soar.

“I don’t remember my dreams. I don’t know if I don’t dream or if they simply vanish upon awakening. Oneiros’s paintings are born from this absence and this questioning, from this uncertain emptiness. The works—acrylics on canvas—are attempts to imagine what might inhabit my sleeping mind. These geometric forms, these abstractions, are fragments of a language without memory: paintings like traces of the dreamed and the invisible. An invented cartography of emptiness, of the dream that never was, or that I don’t know if it ever was. In short, Oneiros is a gesture of searching, of listening, of invention: an invitation to lose oneself in the uncertain, an architecture of the intangible. Let yourself be carried away by the logic of dreams, where everything is possible, even emptiness. Lose yourself in these images, and perhaps you will manage to rediscover something of your own dreams.” — Evelyne

Through this proposal, we recognize Evelyne Rigaud’s work: the use of the square form, which for the artist conveys a feeling of balance and tranquility; Repetition, which allows for the exploration of variations and nuances, and acquires a cathartic character; and the spatial arrangement that invites the audience on a colorful journey.