Initially …
There’s this taste for the body, the skin, the flesh, snippets, scars and secret folds, invisible and indelible memories. This is what drives me in my research: the traces of time on living things.
Light and shadow often seek each other out, talk to each other…
Saying without saying, showing without showing, changing space and scale.
Engraving, drawing
For me, engraving is a bit like losing yourself in order to find yourself.
Engraving brings me something precious: the combination of slowness and urgency, an unlikely marriage that, like an eye-opener, leads to a surpassing of oneself. The urgency of forms that demand to be born, to leave a trace.
Living with the feeling that everything is disjointed and yet inexorably linked.
Time slips by. The surprise of living embraces me.
Duality as breeding ground.
The chosen slowness of burin engraving leads to a subterranean ripening of all this, impossible to anticipate. There are concise gestures, sometimes tiny, sometimes large, always a journey through time, with the senses on the alert.
Blind work, months without knowing, because I don’t make any proofs until the suite of engravings in progress is finished, until I’ve exhausted what I had to give and didn’t know.
And then there’s the twinge in the heart, an essential sign that the mirror that is the print is ready to meet other eyes.
Drawing offers a different temporality, allowing rapid execution in a primal gesture. In all cases, the aim is to get as close as possible to the essential, the fleeting, the inexpressible.
Microcosm and macrocosm are at the heart of all my work. The precise incisions of the burin guide us towards the infinitesimal and the intimate, thanks to the long process of writing in the flesh of copper. The liberated gesture of drawing imposes the reading of fragments of a fragmented world.
Everything is in motion, everything is in suspense. Space and time are a thing of the past. Organic and mineral combine in a quest to become one with the infinite.
C Gillet
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銅版画の展示。
Catherine Gillet
ビュランを使って銅板を彫る版画家。「時」をテーマに制作。
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カトリーヌ・ジレ｜Catherine Gillet「Lisières du temps / 時の端」
会期：2026年9月7日（月）〜9月19日（土）
休：日曜
時間：11:00〜18:00（最終日17:00まで）
会場：GALLERY SAOH & TOMOS
住所：東京都渋谷区神宮前3-5-10
電話：03-6384-5107
http://www.saohtomos.com
- 東京メトロ銀座線・千代田線・半蔵門線「表参道」駅・A2出口を出て直進
- 「Apple Store」と「伊藤病院」の間を右折し「原二本通り」を進み、突き当りを左折
- １つ目の角を右折
- 「とんかつまい泉」の前を通り、「BREIZH Café」の角を左折
- 右側の2つ目の路地（私道。白いコーン、緑のコーンが目印）の奥。徒歩7分。
- 東京メトロ千代田線・副都心線「明治神宮前」駅・5番出口を出て、出た方向とは逆に向いてすぐの「表参道」交差点を直進
- 「TOKYU PLAZA」の方へ渡ってさらに直進
- 「ローソン」を通過
- 「表参道 神宮前四丁目」歩道橋を通過してすぐ左折（OMOTE SANDO HILLSの手前）
- 「神宮前小学校」を通過して直進
- 電柱看板の「神宮前4-25」を通過
- 左へ伸びる道を通過
- 電柱看板の「神宮前3-18」のところを右折。坂道をしばらく進む
- 最初に左折できる十字路を左折（左角に円柱の建物）
- 次の十字路を右折（左角に「渋谷区教育センター」）
- 左への2つ目の私道（私道入口角にヘアサロン。白いコーン、緑のコーンが目印）へ左折して奥。徒歩約10分。
私道への入口に3〜4cmくらいの段差あり。1階は会場内の通路がやや狭いが入ることができる。2階へは階段のみ。