Opening Event Thurday 30 April from 6pm
Nathalie Anne’s work explores what endures when materials meet, transform, and leave their traces. Working with graphite, silk thread, and wood, she engages with substances that carry their own histories of fragmentation and permanence, each one a different way of making a mark, of holding a line.
Graphite is a layered mineral that marks through deliberate erosion. With each stroke, shards of carbon atoms cleave away into tiny fragments, embedding themselves in the grain of the wooden surface. The act of drawing becomes an act of breaking down and building up simultaneously, particles pressed permanently into the wood’s cellular structure, lodged in its memory even as subsequent layers are applied.
Silk thread moves differently, but asks a related question. Spun from a single continuous filament, it is at once tensile and fragile, a line that connects, suspends, and holds. Where graphite embeds itself irrevocably into the surface, thread remains present above it, tracing its path through space. Together they describe two ways a line can persist: one buried in the grain, one drawn through the air.
What remains of a presence? Just as graphite must fragment to make its mark, we too leave traces through our own giving away, the parts of ourselves that become memory for others, the echoes that persist after we leave the room. Thread, too, speaks to this: the fragile filament that binds, that keeps things in relation even across distance or time. Nathalie Anne’s process mirrors the human experience of impermanence and permanence coexisting. Beneath every finished surface lie the ghosts of earlier attempts, earlier selves, never fully erased, continuing to inform what emerges. The line, in all its forms, holds them there.
Image : Je Suis Qui Je Suis, Nathaline Anne
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