Estelle Lacombe

What world is Estelle Lacombe taking us into? His work seems to plunge us into a planet close to ours, with stones, trees, animals, characters with human outlines ... However, his Nature is unreal and his Beings are incomplete. The artist's universe lets imagine a world upside down, a planet from another galaxy, incredible scenes in surreal landscapes. Estelle Lacombe's engravings and drawings question the observer about her world. These scenes project an elsewhere that is both similar and chimerical, and one wonders what is wrong with this drawn planet. But wouldn't this be precisely the reflection of the extravagances of ours? Her line lets itself go in the curves of the paper, she plants the tip of a felt-tip pen or a pencil there to invent a garden of nature in her colors. The artist suggests "parallel worlds", alternates the idea of beauty and deformity in the same universe. This ultimately has all of ours. But shouldn't we leave our egocentric comparisons and indulge in visiting the planet Lacombe? Let us have a neutral gaze, let us travel through this new world as a newborn baby discovers Life. Our imagination will do the rest.