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DOBREZ

Resident artist at MIHL from 27th June to 3th July 2022.
Open show: 3th July 2022 at the MIHL Museum.
Workshop: 29th June 2022 at the MIHL Museum.

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"DOBREZ" is an investigation on folding, on the gesture of the act of keeping, of treasuring, of wrapping. The folds are there because there is a gesture that creates them (a deforming gesture, or a creative one, depending on how you look at it); they model things by giving them another shape, by folding them. They allow the covering, the silence of sight. The wrapping that appears after the folding brings things closer together: several objects or bodies covered with the same fabric or paper, for example, gain resemblance. But the envelope always allows us to intuit the difference hidden behind the common surface: it itself invites us to imagine and to pry. It transfers this tension to what is half-hidden: the desire to know and, at the same time, to maintain the mystery.