"Destination De Nos Lointains"

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" For its new cultural season, the Bullukian Foundation welcomes an important monographic exhibition by artist François Réau, who continues his exploration of drawing with the presentation of new works, often deployed in installations and which question our relationship to landscape and our perception of time. 
Through this exhibition, François Réau wished́ to pay homage to the figure of the great poet and resistance fighter René Char and his radical writing, sometimes abrupt but always striking; poetry then becomes the Ariadne's thread of a sensitive proposal that oscillates between presence and absence. 
The artist, who invokes in his projects the spirit of places to better reveal them, is particularly interested in the textile history of the city of Lyon, while engaging in an original collaboration with the regional company La Turdine, whose fabric production combines historical know-how and the latest printing techniques. François Réau's experience of drawing, made up of meticulous observation, regularity and repeated gestures, is here reinvented to unfold and emancipate itself on a life-size fabric, like a new symbolic space. The weft replaces the fine line of the pencil and the effects of unexpected gradations vibrating in contact with the material allow a new narration that makes visible phenomena hitherto unexplored. "
Fanny Robin, curator of the exhibition 

This exhibition is part of the Résonance program of the 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art.