Precarious shelters

Exhibition available in several formats.

"I think of those lamentable clamors which in primitive civilizations accompanied the dying of the light every evening, and they suddenly seem so well-founded that I prepare to hear the whole city burst into sobs behind me."
Nicolas Bouvier - The Use of the World

In her series Precarious Shelters, Annick Mischler examines the human community through shelter and housing, sensitive places of exchange, from the inside to the outside, from oneself to the other, from here to elsewhere. The shelters, whether collective or mobile, could have been abandoned, an idea corroborated by the absence of any human figure.
Where are we? In the city? In the countryside? At the side of a road? At a dead end?
By attracting them first with the false simplicity of the forms, by disorienting them with unexpected plays of colors, Annick Mischler leaves the spectators the care - the freedom - to read and tell their own stories.
What is immediately striking about Annick Mischler's painting is the expression of her touch, minimal and direct, readable and intriguing. It is about painting what she sees, about rendering all the intensity of her gaze. The colors vibrate, and the drips of her paint material testify to her gesture, deeply poetic and controlled, powerful.