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After his acclaimed exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and the Ginza Herm猫s space in Tokyo (ATM, Homage to Thelonious Monk), Emmanuel Saulnier returns to Les filles du calvaire with Partitions. This exhibition presents two new series of works and coincides with the publication of a monograph dedicated to the artist by Les 脡ditions du Regard. The book features an extensive and detailed iconography of his works and research, accompanied by texts by Fr茅d茅ric Valabr猫gue and Daniel Dobbels.

Emmanuel Saulnier鈥檚 practice unfolds in a continuous dialogue where sculpture, drawing, and publishing intersect, where materials converse with words, and where forms interact with space. Open to the connections between disciplines, intuition, and inquiry, his work is part of an ongoing reflective exchange.

This new exhibition opens fully with Sculptures. The exhibition space is divided in two by a high, wide, suspended piece of leather鈥攂lack and/or shimmering鈥攖hat sets the tempo. Around it, sculptures are arranged on either side, each establishing a direct presence with the viewer, who may see their own reflection in them. These recent three-dimensional pieces, combining metal, wood, and glass, physically question the sensitive presence of materials and their mutual effects on one another. They stage a latent yet generative void.

The In茅dits series gathers twelve large-format collages composed of hundreds of drawings of faces captured by the artist in public spaces across France and abroad over the past six years. Some of these drawings are interspersed with cut-outs of found and collected images. Reworked and enhanced with color in the studio, these sketches come together in monumental compositions, that unfold before the viewer and exploring the relationship between the crowd and solitude, dream and memory.