France Bizot — Natures molles — Backslash Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

In 2 days: November 6 → December 20, 2025

With the exhibition Natures Molles, French multidisciplinary artist France Bizot revisits the great traditional artistic themes — such as still life and the nude — through a poetic exploration of form, medium, and perception, expressed in two series on ceramics and on wood.

Rather than spreading oils on canvas, Bizot chooses ceramics that she shapes herself as the setting for her work: forms of almost ideal roundness, offered to painting like fragile, living spheres. Each piece is unique, a return to the earth and to the simplicity of everyday objects. Lemons, eggs, and balloons become familiar shapes that recall the great masters, from Cézanne to Chardin, but here the artist inscribes them within a decidedly contemporary approach.
Alongside this dominant theme of still life, Bizot also turns her gaze to the representation of the nude, following in the footsteps of past masters, notably in the mannerist odalisques beloved of Ingres or Parmigianino.
Indeed, does not a series of balloons weave, with subtlety, an unexpected dialogue between the fragility of still life and the unsettling intimacy of the nude?
The curve of the ceramic embraces the painted forms, creating a visual and symbolic continuity. The rounded works heighten this sense of weightlessness, as if floating upon the gallery walls.

In dialogue with these pieces, wall works on wooden panels also explore other great themes of classical painting — landscapes, hands, objects — through an approach that questions materiality, light, time, and the ambiguity of the image. Here, breaking with her earlier series on social networks, Bizot shifts the gaze. She slows down, observes, and interrogates the persistence of a tangible world in the face of digital evanescence.
With this new exhibition, painting becomes a space of silent resistance — a place where one looks differently, outside the frame, closer to forms, matter, and reality.

A multidisciplinary visual artist, France Bizot explores with virtuosity drawing, painting, and ceramics. Her work — poetic, demanding, and often tinged with humor — offers a sharp questioning of our hyper-connected contemporary world. A former advertising professional, she masters the language of images with rare precision. Named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic, she was awarded the Derwent Art Prize in 2018 for the excellence of her work on paper.