La conférence des oiseaux

Through her series Les puits du ciel, Chourouk Hriech continues her exploration of drawing through the use of vases, whose shapes refer to ancient times. Within these everyday objects, she draws birds, which she considers as allegories of spirituality, as manifestations of an endless and inaccessible 'elsewhere'. By opening the vase, the artist overturns realities and invites us to discover an imaginary ecosystem. She twists the initial function of the objects to explore new possibilities. The artist creates a paradox, reflected by the oxymoron in the title: the vases shelter another sky and the hollow space becomes infinite.
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In this drawing, Chourouk Hriech invents a floating world similar to Japanese landscapes, where vegetation, animals and geometrical shapes come together through a process of ornamentation akin to cave painting. Without representing them, she suggests through the lines, birds that are flying away. Hence, she creates a continuity between the kimono fabric, and the animal wings spread.

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Birds are a recurrent pattern in Chourouk Hriech's work, symbolizing the spiritual and realisation of the drawing as a trajectory. Working exclusively in black and white, the artist chooses to draw these dazzling and phantasmatic animals in colour for the first time. Confronted to the loss of species, she intends to change her artistic habits to emphasize on the emergency of their situation.

Birds are a recurrent pattern in Chourouk Hriech's work, symbolizing the spiritual and realisation of the drawing as a trajectory. Working exclusively in black and white, the artist chooses to draw these dazzling and phantasmatic animals in colour for the first time. Confronted to the loss of species, she intends to change her artistic habits to emphasize on the emergency of their situation.