La conférence des oiseaux
19th March - 16th April 2022
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/kenia_almaraz_murillo_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1670.jpg)
100 cm x 150 cm
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/kenia_almaraz_murillo_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1669.jpeg)
135 cm x 160 cm x 35 cm
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/kenia_almaraz_murillo_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1672.jpg)
114 cm x 195 cm,
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_175.jpg)
Drawing on terra cotta
Diam: 19 cm / Height: 58 cm/ depth: 14 cm
Through her series Les puits du ciel, Chourouk Hriech continues her exploration of drawing through the use of vases, whose shapes refer to ancient times. Within these everyday objects, she draws birds, which she considers as allegories of spirituality, as manifestations of an endless and inaccessible 'elsewhere'. By opening the vase, the artist overturns realities and invites us to discover an imaginary ecosystem. She twists the initial function of the objects to explore new possibilities. The artist creates a paradox, reflected by the oxymoron in the title: the vases shelter another sky and the hollow space becomes infinite.
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![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1215.jpg)
70 x 55 cm
signed, titled, dated
In this drawing, Chourouk Hriech invents a floating world similar to Japanese landscapes, where vegetation, animals and geometrical shapes come together through a process of ornamentation akin to cave painting. Without representing them, she suggests through the lines, birds that are flying away. Hence, she creates a continuity between the kimono fabric, and the animal wings spread.
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1541.jpeg)
250 x 140 cm
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1540.jpeg)
250 x 140 cm
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![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1542.jpeg)
250 x 140 cm
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1212.jpg)
29,7 x 12,7 cm
Titled, dated, signed on the back
Birds are a recurrent pattern in Chourouk Hriech's work, symbolizing the spiritual and realisation of the drawing as a trajectory. Working exclusively in black and white, the artist chooses to draw these dazzling and phantasmatic animals in colour for the first time. Confronted to the loss of species, she intends to change her artistic habits to emphasize on the emergency of their situation.
![Chourouk Hriech](/cspdocs/artwork/images/chourouk_hriech_galerie_anne_sarah_benichou_1211.jpg)
29,7 x 12,7 cm
Titled, dated, signed on the back
Birds are a recurrent pattern in Chourouk Hriech's work, symbolizing the spiritual and realisation of the drawing as a trajectory. Working exclusively in black and white, the artist chooses to draw these dazzling and phantasmatic animals in colour for the first time. Confronted to the loss of species, she intends to change her artistic habits to emphasize on the emergency of their situation.
![La conférence des oiseaux](/cspdocs/exhibition/images/dsc_0702.jpeg)
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