“The first time I met Margaux Henry-Thieullent in her studio in Biarritz, it was one day in July. The heat was suffocating, those days when one would like to walk with one's entrails in the air in the hope of cooling off somewhat. A viscerality that infuses itself into the studio where the artist's very large format drawings are hung, in which dislocated and sometimes monstrous characters seem to support our gaze. Ready to emerge outside the drawing, they evolve in a chaotic environment from which emanates the almost physical energy of the line and the colors. Thus the drawings which cover the walls of the studio are so many windows that Margaux Henry-Thieullent invites us to cross in order to explore a brutal, ardent and convulsive universe.

Multidisciplinary artist graduated from the Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture (ENSA), Margaux Henry-Thieullent now lives in Biarritz where in 2019 she founded the studio and art space entitled Encore. From architecture, his plastic practice retains a certain approach to drawing as a physical space to be conquered within which the artist deploys quirky perspectives that seem to absorb us. This sensation is accompanied by a feeling of smallness as one enters the interior of the workshop, invaded by a joyful swarm of polymorphic productions, of drawings affixed to the ground, hung on the walls, printed on posters or hidden in notebooks. But also digital landscapes, videos, online performances where the drawing comes to life digitally. The artist thus creates a corpus of interconnected works resulting from the digestion of the permanent flows * of information to which we are subjected via the internet and social networks in particular. Creating then appears in Margaux as the need to exhale these dripping pyorrhea through drawings as intense as they are intuitive in which movement is violent. This visceral need is also that of remembering. By questioning the construction of our collective memory, it offers a reading of contemporary society in the form of thematic layers. She then imagines new stories testifying to the assimilation of multiple information at the same time societal, political, scientific and even biographical. "

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Text by Léna Peyrard, exhibition curator