Les songes de la trame
Liliane Tomasko

With "Les songes de la trame“, Liliane Tomasko (b. 1967, Zurich; lives and works in New York) transforms Le Corbusier’s Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette, designed between 1953 and 1960, into a subtle dialogue between architecture, abstraction, and perception. Bringing together around thirty paintings and works on paper created between 2019 and 2026, including a significant body of new works created specifically for the exhibition, the presentation explores how colour, gesture, and material memory respond to the convent’s austere concrete spaces and spiritual atmosphere.

Inspired by folds of fabric, drapery, and fragments of the everyday, Tomasko’s paintings translate the ordinary into vibrant abstractions charged with movement and inner resonance. Installed throughout the monastery, the works encourage visitors to experience the architecture through its thresholds, passages, and moments of quiet contemplation.

Structured around the symbolic number three, „Les songes de la trame“ offers a renewed perspective on both Tomasko’s practice and Le Corbusier’s iconic building, revealing unexpected connections between abstraction, spirituality, and the poetics of place.

Curated by Marjolaine Lévy