2025/04/19 - 2025/05/31
DUMONTEIL Shanghai
DUMONTEIL Shanghai
DUMONTEIL is delighted to present Vibrancy, the second solo exhibition of French artist Tamaris Borrelly in China. Following her acclaimed debut, Inner Life, Shaping Worlds, this emerging Beaux-Arts de Paris graduate returns with a dynamic collection of new watercolor works, including striking large-format pieces. In this exhibition, Borrelly delves into the evolution of life forms and a profound sense of symbiosis, blending vivid energy and intricate detail to illuminate the transformative mechanisms shaping existence.
Vibrancy, draws us into a process of transformation, where some forms are defined, while others appear in the making, in the midst of an evolutionary process. The entanglements between plant and animal forms create a dense weave that echoes the layered richness of the living world. The process of germination, the ripening of seeds, is stylized as a matrix-like soil teeming with microorganisms, cells, embryos, and animals.
In Cocoons, the ground holds oval or round shapes—like eggs or cradles—harboring bodies and creatures in formation. Fine threads, like delicate veins, stretch into long cords, connecting beings in a dormant state that precedes the vital spark of awakening.
A profusion of elements is exchanged between organisms through chains. Pleiades of forms intertwine and intersect. The arrangement of embryonic shapes—filled with cells and heterogeneous components—suggests an intricate organic system.
Elements of the landscape interlace like filigree, like stones set in jewelry. Bodies are interwoven, sewn or knotted together in various ways. They stream, curl, and glide across the paper like a river.
Through this collection of drawings, the artist invites us into the intricate fabric of a planet teeming with organisms and micro-organisms, endlessly evolving in symbiosis. Here, living beings lie within a landscape of matter, humus, and bodies still in formation—an environment that attests to the abundant precision of creation. As Annie Dillard writes in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: “This is the truth of the pervading intricacy of the world’s detail: the creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine.”
Tamaris Borrelly offers us a vision of nature as an extraordinarily complex assembly of macroscopic and microscopic life forms—the underlying pulse of life on Earth. Her drawings, where bodies are shaped by organs and matter, invite us to contemplate the mystery of life. They remind us that we are endlessly interwoven with the animal, plant, and mineral worlds—and that life itself is a vast and intricate tapestry.
Vibrancy, draws us into a process of transformation, where some forms are defined, while others appear in the making, in the midst of an evolutionary process. The entanglements between plant and animal forms create a dense weave that echoes the layered richness of the living world. The process of germination, the ripening of seeds, is stylized as a matrix-like soil teeming with microorganisms, cells, embryos, and animals.
In Cocoons, the ground holds oval or round shapes—like eggs or cradles—harboring bodies and creatures in formation. Fine threads, like delicate veins, stretch into long cords, connecting beings in a dormant state that precedes the vital spark of awakening.
A profusion of elements is exchanged between organisms through chains. Pleiades of forms intertwine and intersect. The arrangement of embryonic shapes—filled with cells and heterogeneous components—suggests an intricate organic system.
Elements of the landscape interlace like filigree, like stones set in jewelry. Bodies are interwoven, sewn or knotted together in various ways. They stream, curl, and glide across the paper like a river.
Through this collection of drawings, the artist invites us into the intricate fabric of a planet teeming with organisms and micro-organisms, endlessly evolving in symbiosis. Here, living beings lie within a landscape of matter, humus, and bodies still in formation—an environment that attests to the abundant precision of creation. As Annie Dillard writes in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: “This is the truth of the pervading intricacy of the world’s detail: the creation is not a study, a roughed-in sketch; it is supremely, meticulously created, created abundantly, extravagantly, and in fine.”
Tamaris Borrelly offers us a vision of nature as an extraordinarily complex assembly of macroscopic and microscopic life forms—the underlying pulse of life on Earth. Her drawings, where bodies are shaped by organs and matter, invite us to contemplate the mystery of life. They remind us that we are endlessly interwoven with the animal, plant, and mineral worlds—and that life itself is a vast and intricate tapestry.