Clio Sze To\u0019s forthcoming solo exhibition \u00003Cstrong\u0000C\u0000Echos\u00003C\/strong\u0000C 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.<\/p>\n
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 tree\u000019s canopy become active forces in the compositions. Early on, she considered titling the body of work Bulles<\/em> (\u00003Cem\u0000C\u0000Cbubbles\u00003C\/em\u0000C), drawn to how a thin, translucent membrane captures and reflects light as a chromatic prism. The final title, however, points outward. \u00003Cem\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000CE\u0000Cchos\u00003C\/em\u0000C, a statement says, \u00003Cem\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000C\u0000Cimplies an outside: something that travels outward, rebounds, and returns to us transformed, rather than a space sealed in upon itself\u00003C\/em\u0000C.<\/p>\n Presented at Cr\u0000E8vec\u0000C\u000093ur 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 body\u000019s scale, while others stretch horizontally to suggest extended, foot-borne looking. Titles nod to rhythm, rendezvous, midnight, and nocturnal arcs\u0000C\u000097each inflected by the city\u000019s mutable light.<\/p>\n Across these canvases, figures drift through scenes but never eclipse Sze To\u0019s 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.<\/p>\n \u00003Cem\u0000C\u0000CE\u0000Cchos\u00003C\/em\u0000C is on view at Cr\u0000E8vec\u0000C\u000093ur in Paris from September 4 to October 10.<\/p>\nInside \u00003Cem\u0000C\u0000CE\u0000Cchos\u00003C\/em\u0000C<\/h2>\n
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