Venues and dates
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Lyon
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Fromto
Opening hours
Monday Closed Tuesday, Sunday Closed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2:30PM - 7PM -
Prices
Free admission
The gallery Françoise Besson brings together three major figures of contemporary painting: Marine Joatton, Damien Cabanes and Fabienne Gaston-Dreyfus. Three painters, three distinct worlds. Yet their works are united by a shared attention to living forms, sensitivity, and all that escapes immediate perception, revealing the quiet power of contemporary painting.
Three painters. Three worlds. Three ways of inhabiting the world through painting. Yet their works share a deep attentiveness to life, a sensitivity to what lies beneath appearances, and a desire to reveal what escapes immediate perception.
For Marine Joatton, painting becomes an organic territory where human, animal and plant forms emerge from an unsettling dream. Desire, metamorphosis and the fragility of the body shape a universe in constant transformation.
Damien Cabanes develops a painting of breath and restraint. Bodies, landscapes and flowers appear through an economy of means in which every gesture seeks a truthful presence. His work leaves room for silence, light and the subtle vibration of reality.
For Fabienne Gaston-Dreyfus, matter becomes memory. Landscapes reveal buried layers where time, traces and disappearance surface. Painting becomes an act of excavation, uncovering sensitive territories.
Together, these works create a dialogue between three singular artistic languages. In a world saturated with fleeting images, they invite us to slow down, to look differently and to rediscover painting as a space of presence, poetic resistance and inner transformation.
Passing from one dream to another.
Audience
All ages