VIRGINIE GROLEAU Virginie Groleau captures the human essence in its depth and simplicity. With her portraits, she inscribes souls in earth and bronze, souls crossed here and there, in China or in Africa, or imaginary souls like her “Dark Souls”, dark visions borrowed from Goya. With colors and war paintings, she adorns her "Hunted-Hunter" terracotta, associates them with raw wood from the deep forests ... where she searches for animal skulls and, like an artist who has become a shaman, gives them life and power. by adorning them with gold and light (“My Precious”). So, of the warrior or the animal, who chases the other? We can hear their chase in the distance in the undergrowth… In turn ethnologist and alchemist, Virginie Groleau patiently extracts the vital substance from the clay. TERRES TERRES HUMANITY / ANIMALITY Terracotta, horn grafts, engobes (different colored earths worked bare), enamel. DARK SOULS Black paintings by Goya, timeless, Virginie explores the shadow zone. She works with plaster like lace rather than clay, “making matter speak to meet paint”. Building a bridge between 2 eras. Suspended bronzes or direct suspended or base plasters, Height from 25 to 40 cm depending on the parts. LIGHTING My Precious Trophies and animal skulls, themselves already sculptures, meticulously and carefully crafted supports…. The artist adorns them with flamboyant pigments, bronze powder, aerial gold leaves, GEORGETA MOCANU I started to set up textile projects in 1980, I was then a young graduate of Fine Arts in Bucharest in Romania. As soon as I arrived in France, to complete my creative activity, I worked on restorations of old tapestries and textiles, for museums and private collections. I quickly specialized in dyeing and traditional techniques, which certainly influenced my creative process. It is important to me to weave with wools chosen and dyed by myself. The "Forest" is part of an open series which is a continuation of a volume tapestry work that I initiated in the 1980s. The Forest is a recurring theme in Aubusson 's tapestry on which I have worked for a long time and it is naturally towards this theme that I turned to give it a more sensory dimension, like a call to the touch of tree bark. The lockstitch allows me to play with colors like an assumed pointillism. The “Birch Forest”, whose white bark reflects the light of the moment is woven with the help of hanging wool and silk tubes that hang freely. The “Tears” (on a high-rail loom), monochrome works, evoke bas-reliefs where the subject represented stands out only slightly from the background; he remains there halfway up. Like a pearl in its case.