until Sunday January 11 2026

Le Plateau
22 Rue des Alouettes
75019 Paris
France

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T : +33 (0)1 76 21 13 41
plateau@fraciledefrance.com

Curator: Céline Poulin

The Frac Île-de-France will be hosting Mathilde Denize’s first solo exhibition at an institution in the Paris region, for which she will be taking over Le Plateau. Denize’s artistic practice combines painting and sculpture, which she considers inseparable, with installation, video, and performance. She has developed a unique body of work in which forms are born of assembly, transformation, and recycling. Her paintings, which often resemble garments or costumes, are both pictorial surfaces and portable objects, existing on the border between painting, volume, and scenography.

She cuts up her old canvases and attaches fragments of found materials and discarded objects to them. Her cutting and editing techniques are reminiscent of filmmaking. This personal archaeology results in hybrid works: costumes without bodies that are somewhere between armour and camouflage; floating silhouettes; and suspended figures. Paradoxically, the absence of the suggested bodies reinforces their presence. The elusive figures blend into the surrounding colour like a halo, creating a special aura around them.

Mathilde Denize stages her paintings, transforming them into authentic “theatrical tableaux.”Through her installations, she creates spaces for perception rather than narrative, encouraging us to explore shapes and sensations.

Camera Ballet is an immersive experience in which visitors move amongst object-paintings, textile sculptures, videos, and performative devices, many of which have been created specially for this exhibition. Mathilde Denize creates a theatrical display of materials and presences, a kind of silent choreography in which forms come to life.