29 rue notre dame de nazareth 75003 Paris
Presentation of the gallery
A backslash is a typographic symbol widely used in computer systems. For us, it represents the beginning of a story and its continuity over the long term.
Founded in 2010 in the Haut Marais district of Paris by Delphine Guillaud and Séverine de Vokkovitch, the gallery offers an international and resolutely eclectic program. Its 250 m2 space reflects an essential commitment to artists in order to allow the existence of demanding exhibitions, whether monographic or collective. Backslash also regularly participates in fairs, organizes off-site exhibitions, and publishes books dedicated to the artists it represents through Backslash Editions. The gallery has always been committed to climate protection and respect for all.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
The Backslash booth brings together three universes which, though singular, converge in the exploration of form, memory and perception of the sensible.
In her work, France Bizot pays particular attention to gesture, turning drawing into a fragile space of unveiling where intimacy emerges. Her compositions open up poetic interstices, like suspended narratives. Alongside her, Frédérique Lucien deploys a vocabulary nourished by observation of the plant and mineral kingdoms. Her drawings, precise and open to abstraction, reflect on the passages between the organic and the formal, composing a silent cartography of the living. Pierre Ardouvin, meanwhile, introduces the dimension of collective narrative and popular memory. His universe, nourished by references to visual culture and kitsch, brings drawing into dialogue with the theater of our memories and emotions.
The booth is conceived as a zone of circulation between these three voices. Bizot's fragmented forms echo Lucien's stylized motifs, while Ardouvin's sober lines contrast with his narrative imagination.