Fabienne Verdier

Fabienne Verdier (Paris, 1962) is an artist who has built a practice radically committed to gesture, matter and the invisible energy that articulates the world.

Fabienne Verdier, born in Paris, trained for ten years in China during the 1980s, where she studied calligraphy and Chinese painting with masters who were heirs to Taoist thought. Building on that foundation, her work carries this millennia-old tradition into a contemporary language that moves between the discipline of the single stroke and the free expressiveness of European abstraction.

Each painting emerges from a performative, almost ritual action, in which the artist's body serves to measure time and space. Using large suspended brushes, dense pigments and precise control of movement, the paintings seek to capture invisible forces such as gravity, vibration, rhythm or breath. The stroke, often monumental and with a centrifugal energy, brings together in a single gesture the memory of movement and awareness of the present.

In the Saló dels Miralls of the opera theatre on La Rambla, Verdier's works are set against the room's ornate decoration and function as a point of energetic concentration. The painterly gesture is reflected and multiplied in the mirrors, and the proposition invites a slow contemplation of the surface of each painting.