EventsMarie Chamant — Signes et sons
Exhibition
Marie Chamant
Signes et sons
Ends in about 1 month: April 24 → May 31, 2025
For her first solo show at the gallery, running from April 24 to May 31, 2025, Marie Chamant, a distinctive figure in the contemporary art scene, presents a body of work that, for several decades, has explored the deep connections between language, writing, memory, and the sacred.
More a researcher than simply a visual artist, Marie Chamant develops a unique body of work in which language becomes material and the sign a space for exploration. Her artist’s books, teeming and multicolored, defy the conventional order of reading: letters unfold in every direction, clinging, dancing, repeating or fading, in a movement that is both poetic, graphic, and deeply symbolic.
In this exhibition, the artist reveals major series such as APOCA ca, apo KAPPA — Creux grec de la main, as well as emblematic works like La fée Mikado, Écrire inciser cadrer, and her collaborative project Centre Poly Cultuel with the architects Les Simonnet.
Signs and Sounds highlights the tension between free form and invisible structure, writing and orality, the sonorities of language and the memory of signs. The exhibition showcases Marie Chamant’s work on signs and their resonance across cultures and faiths. Her work, deeply committed to spiritual dialogue, gave rise to Centre Poly Cultuel, exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1967), UNESCO (1969), and the Adda‘Wa Mosque (1998).
A selection of three artist books by Marie Chamant is presented in the exhibition—from a collection of her fifteen books available for consultation at the Kandinsky Library of the Centre Pompidou and at the Enseigne des Oudin—allowing the public to deepen their experience of the artist’s visual and poetic universe.
Marie Chamant invites us on a sensitive journey through her world, a space where the verb becomes breath, where each letter resonates, and where language regains its sacred, living, and vibratory dimension.