GUERRE Angèle, Scalpel drawing, guest artist, Jardins invisibles

Biographical notes

Born in 1988, Angèle Guerre lives and works between Paris (Poush) and Auvers Sur Oise. After graduating from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2013 (Marie-José Burki studio), she continued her training in bookbinding and engraving, deepening her intimate relationship with materials and gestures. The pen, scalpel, and calligraphy become the instruments of a work where drawing, sculpture, and installation intertwine in a sensitive and rigorous exploration. 

Approach

My work explores mental landscapes, spaces in motion where matter becomes a territory for contemplation. Each piece is an attempt to approach life, in its slowness, fragility, and silent mutations. 
The scalpel is at the heart of my practice. Inherited from my training in bookbinding and engraving, it is both precise and meditative. I incise the surface of the paper, sometimes tinted with pastel, to reveal its sensitive layers, as one unfolds a buried memory or a geological stratum. The surface becomes a skin to be caressed, scarified, a place of tension between gentleness and violence, between touch and wound. 
In the series Tendres textes and Terres troubles, which I wish to present for this exhibition, drawing is akin to an act of inner exploration. 

In the series Tendres textes and Terres troubles, which I would like to propose for this exhibition, drawing is akin to an act of inner exploration. 
The Tendres textes, white and silent, play on light, shadow, and relief. They evoke a writing without words, a barely perceptible whisper—an inner garden, fragile and tactile. Terres troubles, where incisions mingle with pastel, are situated in a more organic, telluric zone. They summon the memory of the soil, invisible flows, the transformations of life beneath the surface. 
What drives me is the search for a balance between contemplation and the violence of the incision, between matter and breath. Faced with the speed of the world and the disappearance of life, I choose the slowness of the line, the resistance of the paper, the persistence of the manual gesture.