Françoise Pétrovitch & Marie Darrieussecq — Très exactement — Semiose Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris

In 10 days: February 7 → March 7, 2026

Semiose is excited to announce the opening in February 2026 of a new space at 42, Rue Quincampoix, in close proximity to the main gallery, in the same street at number 44.

For the inauguration of 42, Rue Quincampoix, a series of 18 ink wash drawings by Françoise Pétrovitch, imagined in collaboration with the writer Marie Darrieussecq will be shown.

Marie Darrieussecq, winner of the Medicis prize, has written a short story inspired by the work of Françoise Pétrovitch. In addition to nods to her iconography—birds, isolated landscapes and absent figures—the writer captures the melancholy and languor of the painter’s works in her own words.

In return, in a rewarding dialog with the short story dedicated to her by Marie Darrieussecq, Françoise Pétrovitch has created a series of ink washes on paper. The words of the writer enter into conversation with the images of the painter. Their imaginations resonate, infiltrating each other like the ink that infuses the halos that surround the figures and silent landscapes they have invented together. These drawings, accompanied by the author’s short story, feature in the artist’s book, Très exactement, published by Semiose.

An excerpt from Marie Darrieussecq’s text Quite precisely for Françoise Pétrovitch:

“He had gone travelling. He had flown over the edge of the city, above the forests. But the borders were closed now, and he could no longer come back. He regularly gave news. And then, less regularly.

In her timetable, it became a gap. Increasingly more gaps between the messages. And in the evening, in their house, she no longer looked towards the city, she always looked towards the forest.

At the foot of the bed, he had left a book by Pierre Reverdy, that she opened at random, and it was as if he was talking to her.”