Damien Moulierac — Galerie Womanray, Paris
At Galerie Womanray, Damien Moulierac presents a haunting and deeply inhabited meditation on a fractured world, where shifting temporalities, unstable memories and raw emotional violence take shape through paintings, sculptures and drawings layered with multiple readings. This first solo exhibition also marks a striking beginning for the gallery itself, asserting a near primal belief in art’s enduring ability to unsettle, linger and haunt lived experience.
Rooted in the grief of a father living with Alzheimer’s disease, the exhibition carries a quiet but uncompromising intensity, drawing the viewer into a strange and unsettling emotional landscape that feels inseparable from the artist’s own lived experience. Yet beneath the wet traces and abrasions of paint, the work never collapses into despair or dissolution.
Making full use of the circular architecture of the gallery, the exhibition We Need to Talk transforms the space into a kind of enclosed laboratory of memory, where recurring motifs echo like fragments trapped in repetition. Symbols, personal recollections and the ordinary violence of everyday life move constantly back and forth across the works, producing a restless image of memory itself. Reality becomes layered and unstable, allowing inner movement and psychological tension to confront tragedy directly rather than simply narrate it.
By inhabiting the fractures of memory with remarkable emotional clarity, Mouliérac frees recollection from the mechanical logic of time. The past is not reconstructed so much as reactivated, becoming a living force for emotion, inquiry and artistic research rather than something fixed or finished.
Damien Moulierac, We Need to Talk, from April 16 to June 6, at Galerie Womanray, 18–19 Passage Molière, 75003 Paris — Wednesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
