To see or not to see

The exhibition questions the boundaries between what is shown and what escapes. Floating faces, fragmented bodies, nameless and placeless silhouettes: in Patricia Dreyfus’s universe, the visible is always crossed by the invisible — what has been silenced, forgotten, veiled...

The large installations of embroidered faces Les Visibles d’après, the series of automatic drawings Les Invisibles, and the hand-embroidered portraits from Ce que disent les fleurs create an intuitive network of invisible connections. The faces, drawn in fine automatic lines or hand-embroidered, emerge spontaneously, populating the space with multiple identities and interwoven memories.

Through the tapestries L’Île imaginaire and Un certain regard, a second mental vision appears, inspired by dreams and inner landscapes. Imagination becomes an endless territory, where identity, gender, dreams and resistance intertwine.

Thread — whether cotton, thought, or memory — connects the works. Wether it involves embroidery, drawing or sculptures each gesture seeks to reveal what lies hidden behind appearances. La Dévoilée, a sculpture of a woman’s bust with a veiled face and an open stomach filled with fine wire, reveals as much as it conceals.

What do we truly see? And what do we choose not to see?
The exhibition leaves the question unanswered— like a space to inhabit, an imaginary world to invent.