Eve Malherbe's work places great importance on textures, fabrics and transformation: from this comes a particular strength, oscillating between a certain silent softness and the sudden appearance of an irresolvable mystery. Familiar forms always bring us back to concrete elements of understanding which, close to reality, open the doors to an imaginary journey. In her choice of subjects, and although her techniques differ greatly, the artist focuses on themes dear to the history of painting, philosophy and psychoanalysis. She brings up the issues of the visible and the image, language and subjectivity, vanity, desire and death. From her drawings made of dust and ashes to her large charcoals, to her large oils on canvas and her textile work, the artist uses alchemy to highlight and shade the fragile presence of the human being in relation to others, to his territory, to his time.
Eve Malherbe (*1987, FR) lives and works in Oise, France. She graduated from the universities of Marseille and Lille in visual arts, studied interior architecture and design at the Camondo School in Paris, and art history at the University of Valencia, Spain.