Lorène Gaydon

Biography

Lorène Gaydon’s practise explores drawing in multiple forms including press illustration and graphic design, while retaining the spontaneous, activated nature of observation sketchbook drawings. Through her work, she imagines and proposes new symbiotic, biocompatible and sustainable ways of living.

Gaydon draws inspiration from the forms nature takes and its modes of organization for narrative and aesthetic purposes. She is interested in le vivant (the living) and this acts as  the center for her investigations into the forms of nature, feeding her imagination.

Organic matter, the lines and forms of fauna, flora, rocks, physical phenomena and symbiosis processes populate her drawings and are the subjects of the stories she tells in her works. The backdrop for all her works revolves around the persistent threat to the environment.

At the beginning of her creative process is a synthesis of fleeting ideas, visual analogies, progressive deformations and appropriations of images by collaging. She multiplies a line again and again to see it deform under the hand and become richer "by accident". Her eye is trained to perceive in vague, imprecise or fractal forms, new shapes drawn from her imagination and restored by the drawing.

 Vitality, resilience and forms of organisation of le vivant inspire Gaydon to propose alternative ways of moving, living and feeding oneself in the name of sustainability. ‘Mutation’ is the aphorism of her creative process, representing a capability of infinite variations in order to adapt to the threats to one’s existence.

Exhibitions

 Group Exhibitions

2018

‘TRÊVE’ / ENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

‘ART NOUVEAU REVIVAL’ / Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

2014

‘LE MONDE SECRET DU PLANCTON’ / Galerie Tara et Pavillon de l’eau, Paris, Frane

2012

‘LES NOUVEAUX MONSTRES’ / Galerie Vivienne, Paris, France