From September 25, 2025 to January 11, 2026, Frac Île-de-France presents artist Mathilde Denize at Le Plateau. It is her first solo exhibition in a Paris institution. Her practice combines painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance. The works evolve through assemblage, transformation and recycling.
Her canvases become objects, close to clothing or costume. She cuts, grafts, and reuses fragments of found materials. The result is hybrid forms, suspended between presence and absence, between figure and color.
With Camera Ballet, Mathilde creates an immersive environment. The public moves among painting-objects, textile sculptures, videos and performance pieces, many made for this exhibition. A quiet choreography of materials and forms.
Camera Ballet invites us to look differently, to let the gaze shift and wander. To see figures that appear only for an instant.
“There is the same intuitive process. The film, the costumes, as much as the paintings on canvas, all of it could evolve. These are not finished works. For me, the sensation is there: at a given moment, you feel something must change, and you go back to rework it. You must always remain in this fluid presence, never establish it, never freeze it. Always leave a door open, which allows it not to become sacred, to stay close to the viewer, to oneself, to life, and to play. To remain in this infinite play of transformation.” – Mathilde Denize
A futuristic atmosphere, straight out of a film I could easily love.
Yours digitally,
Pedro Guez
