Clio Sze To Maps Paris in Light: “Échos” Opens at Crèvecœur

Clio Sze Tos forthcoming solo exhibition 3CstrongCEchos3C/strongC distills the way she moves through her home city of Paris: unhurried, observant, and attuned to fleeting atmospheres. The painter sets out with an open agenda, collecting photos on her walks that later seed impressionistic canvases. The resulting works fold together passersby, the pulse of changing seasons, and the time of day into scenes animated by dappled light and hazy shadow.

From the walk to the canvas

Back in the studio, Sze To translates those urban fragments into stylized composites that emphasize how illumination reshapes the city. The shifting light of dusk, the hazy glow of street lamps, and the dance of shadows as sun filters through a tree19s canopy become active forces in the compositions. Early on, she considered titling the body of work Bulles (3CemCCbubbles3C/emC), drawn to how a thin, translucent membrane captures and reflects light as a chromatic prism. The final title, however, points outward. 3CemCCCCECchos3C/emC, a statement says, 3CemCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCimplies an outside: something that travels outward, rebounds, and returns to us transformed, rather than a space sealed in upon itself3C/emC.

Inside 3CemCCECchos3C/emC

Presented at CrE8vecC93ur in Paris from September 4 to October 10, the exhibition gathers recent oils that chart this perceptual territory. Several works are intimate verticals keyed to the body19s scale, while others stretch horizontally to suggest extended, foot-borne looking. Titles nod to rhythm, rendezvous, midnight, and nocturnal arcsC97each inflected by the city19s mutable light.

• 3CstrongCCCCCCCCEnglobE9s3C/strongC (2026), oil on canvas, 55 D7 38 centimeters
• 3CstrongCEn musique3C/strongC (2026), oil on canvas, 55 D7 38 centimeters
• 3CstrongCRendez-vous3C/strongC (2026), oil on linen, 80 D7 40 centimeters
• 3CstrongCVers minuit3C/strongC (2026), oil on canvas, 50 D7 100 centimeters
• 3CstrongCBoEEtes mystE8res3C/strongC (2026), oil on canvas, 55 D7 38 centimeters
• 3CstrongCArc de nuit3C/strongC (2026), oil on canvas, 55 D7 38 centimeters
• 3CstrongCFEAte3C/strongC (2026), oil on canvas, 100 D7 73 centimeters

Across these canvases, figures drift through scenes but never eclipse Sze Tos central subject: light as it grazes surfaces, pools under lamps, and splinters through leaves. The city is less a backdrop than a carrier of these transitions, each painting echoing the perceptual shifts of a contemplative hour spent on foot.

3CemCCECchos3C/emC is on view at CrE8vecC93ur in Paris from September 4 to October 10.

Vía thisiscolossal.com