Between taut threads, vibrant surfaces, and geometric prisms, INTERSECTIONS brings together three artists whose practices, though distinct, converge around a shared desire: to question our perception of space, gesture, and matter. Where lines intersect, new perceptions emerge—at once precise and sensitive, abstract and embodied.
For Sébastien PRESCHOUX, the line becomes a tool of precision, a manual illusion that defies the machine. Drawn by hand with almost obsessive rigor, his compositions flirt with the digital while asserting the presence of the body. The gaze is lost within them, then drawn closer, discovering the minute irregularities that the artist calls the “reward of the curious.” Simultaneously, his installations of taut threads sculpt the air, playing with light and tension, in an invitation to an immersive experience.
Tomislav TOPIĆ, for his part, explores the interactions between color and form in often monumental installations. Trained in both academic and urban art, he purifies the visual language to its essence: pure, abstract, radical, and universal surfaces. His research stems from a desire to create sensitive spaces, accessible to all, where art acts as a direct experience, a shared chromatic vibration. Beauty and rigor coexist there, in a quest to make the invisible visible.
For Valérie Newland, thread becomes raw material. It is no longer a tool, but the subject. Through the repetition of gesture, she diverts this ordinary material from its utilitarian function to reveal its poetic potential. Her approach, rooted in craftsmanship and minimalism, resembles a form of active meditation. The canvases, stripped of all figurative narrative, become surfaces of tension and silence, where the very structure of the support becomes the artwork.
Three artists, three distinct styles, one shared commitment to an embodied abstraction. Through painting, thread, light, and color, they invite us to slow down, to observe, to feel. To lose ourselves in the details, to move around the works, to experience matter in a new way.
INTERSECTIONS thus becomes the place of this convergence: where gestures meet, where materials respond to one another, where perceptions shift.
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