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Cédric Fauq
@cedric.fauq

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At the beginning of summer, I had the privilege to receive a very special visit in the studio from #turnerprize juror and @capcmusee chief curator @cedric.fauq. The conversation was joyful and deep. The result is a beautiful essay written on the occasion of Toccata, my upcoming solo exhibition @alminerech Paris. I’m incredibly grateful to Cedric for his beautiful prose. Here is an abstract: “The abolition of distance between her hands, the colour and the canvas is an aesthetic statement that has formal repercussions – traces of the artist’s fingers and hands visibly emerge when you come closer to her paintings – but also an ethical one. The idea is to place hapticality – the ability to touch and allow yourself to be touched – at the heart of the painting process. Sasha Ferré’s tour de force is that she successfully reveals painting that touches upon nature not by seeking to depict it but to let it be felt. The artist lives in the gap between landscape and abstract painting, where she unfolds a world of foliage, waves, flames and corals that we can no longer see but would once more need to learn to touch (beyond our endless screen-scrolling).” The full text can be read on the gallery website. See link in my bio “Toccata” opens on September 7 @alminerech gallery in Paris. Featured painting: “As soon as dawn appears”, 2023 Oil stick and tempera on canvas 200 x 160 cm #cedricfauq #sashaferre #contemporaryart #soloexhibition #alminerechparis