Elémentaire 3, 2022

Françoise Langlois  

Steps

The cycles of life and its infinite rituals, its adaptations and metamorphoses are at the heart of Françoise Langlois' work.

The transformation of matter through successive states echoes these cycles. The paper material, Françoise Langlois shapes it, sculpts it. The preparation of pastes, pigments... a meditative time, a distance before working on the form.

The sculpted paper material is disturbing, its touch is close to bark. Sublimated by pigments, these works make us experience paradoxical sensations, rootedness and elevation, the perennial and the ephemeral...

The still wild environment where Françoise Langlois lives favors her living relationship with nature in its changes. The idea of a common language, of a writing common to plants, minerals and the organic animates and inspires him.

An attempted merger for a silent alliance.

Biography

Paris

Françoise Langlois was born in the heart of the city. As a child, she went alone to the Louvre and experienced her first aesthetic emotions while looking at the primitive paintings and caressing the marbles. These emotions always accompany him.

Later, she learned pictorial composition and the alchemical slowness of superimposed layers in the workshop of Patrick Le Gay and Claude Tournon, lacquer artists.

Toulouse

After training in decoration and interior architecture, she joined an advertising group in which she designed decorative POS collections for large sales spaces.

Then, she opened the Térépentine workshop, where she created a range of small furniture.

Strasbourg

She gleans, creates plant weavings and makes small paintings – oil on wood – inspired by short texts, sometimes a sentence caught on the fly.

She was made aware of the wide possibilities of paper art by Danièle Schiffmann.

Corbières

In this wild nature, it was the constellations of crustose lichens that inspired his beginnings with paper. Constantly observing and exploring, Françoise Langlois gives three technical orientations to her work: paper applications, weaving and sculpture.