It’s not so much me on the paper as me running experiments, testing sensations and feelings on paper. There’s no scientific accuracy at play though, I resort to plants because of the way they move, bend, bow, break, of what’s gorgeous and fragile about them; misleading, too, hurtful, or just so unnerving; what might be lurking in the grass; what grows back and what doesn’t.
Anne-Laure Zevi, quoted in Jennifer Higgie’s text, A Seed and a Brick: Some notes on Anne-Laure Zevi’s new drawings.
Lyndsey Ingram is delighted to present More Drawings, a solo exhibition of the French artist Anne-Laure Zevi which will coincide with Frieze Art Fair 2024. The show consists of a selection of recent works on paper and is the first time that Zevi has shown in the United Kingdom, following exhibitions in both Switzerland (2021, 2022) and Rome (2023).
Zevi’s drawings are psychologically charged. Their intensity lies both in her technique - which meanders from charcoal, to pencil, ink and remarkably, to the rubbing of cosmetic make-up into delicate sheets of paper – as well as their mysterious, enigmatic subject matter. The thin stalks of flowers, delicate buds, and clouds are side by side with brick walls and fragments of the human body. There is tension between delicate and heavy, shadow and light, space and matter. Zevi experiments with various arrangements of objects and ideas, creating works which are uncannily evocative of the poetic, the uncertain and the beautiful.
Aside from her artistic practice, Zevi’s short stories have featured in The Paris Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Hopkins Review and Gagosian Quarterly. The exhibition at Lyndsey Ingram is accompanied with a text by Jennifer Higgie.
