Patricia Erbelding - Endemic

Galerie Marie-Claude Duchosal

Endemic - Exhibition by Patricia Erbelding at Galerie Marie-Claude Duchosal. Opening Friday October 2, from 6pm to 8:30pm With Endemic, Patricia Erbelding offers a painting that seems to take root in a territory without ever seeking to represent it. Her works evoke less an identifiable landscape than a world in the process of growing, where matter, like the plant world, obeys its own forces, its own rhythms and its own transformations. The term, borrowed from botanical vocabulary, designates that which belongs intimately to a place: a plant, a form of life that develops nowhere else in the same way. This notion of anchoring runs throughout the exhibition. The works seem to emerge from an invisible soil, branch out, spread, disappear and reappear, like so many plant forms whose growth would be underground. In Endemic, this vegetal dimension allows us to look differently at the signs that populate her work. The lines, ramifications, strata and networks can evoke roots as much as branches, veins, seeds or circulation systems. They do not constitute a repertoire of natural forms but rather a writing of growth. The tree, which occupies an important place in the artist's recent research, becomes in this respect an essential figure: a structure of life as much as a structure of thought, it simultaneously embodies growth, circulation, vulnerability and resistance. But in Erbelding's work, the vegetal is never separated from the mineral. Roots plunge into strata, forms are built through successive deposits, surfaces bear the traces of a slow history. The work thus becomes an intermediate space, between earth and vegetation, depth and emergence, memory and appearance. Endemic could then be understood as an imaginary inventory of species that exist nowhere else: forms born of an inner territory, each bearing the traces of its own development. Landscapes without horizon, vegetation without leaves, roots without soil — presences that seem to have germinated directly within the pictorial matter. The exhibition thus invites us to look at painting not as a finished surface, but as a living environment: a place where something grows, transforms, takes root and sometimes disappears. A painting that does not represent nature, but that takes up its principles of growth, mutation and persistence.

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